Any ideas?

[mdot633]

I saw this on ebay and had to bid...now it's mine but it hasn't arrived and I have no idea what it is. Any ideas?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/300645052315?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2648

Mike

 

[John D. Bartleson Jr.]

Mike,
I see several items on your link, one was an $800 C.S. Oconee River Bolt, the next was the tail fragment of a U.S. Schenkl shell and the one labeled 20th Cen. cannonball is a WWII APHE shell.
John

 

[mdot633]

Mike,
I see several items on your link, one was an $800 C.S. Oconee River Bolt, the next was the tail fragment of a U.S. Schenkl shell and the one labeled 20th Cen. cannonball is a WWII APHE shell.
John

Yes, the poorly described "cannonball" is the one I'm referring to. Almost looks like an upper driving band...I didn't think anything post WWI had those?

 

[HAZORD]

Without a diameter, it is hard to positively ID, but it looks like a 75mm APCapped projo, minus the cap and ballistic cap and rotating band. This projectile would have been fired by the Sherman Tank with 75mm gun, and the B-25 aircraft carrying the same gun. The small rotating band would make it 75mm instead of the 76mm which has a much larger band or the 3 inch Navy which also has a larger band. This projo was issued in two configurations, filled with explosive with a base fuze/tracer or empty with a base plug and tracer.