Bomb tail fin or something completely different

[Ruuti]

Found a strange tail in the forest yesterday (and a paper punch).
Where has a tail like this been used? Roughly made to be part of a bomb…
I'll post more pictures and measurements later if needed.

 

[Dreamk]

If you found this in Finland, a good candidate could be this one:
The 3kg incendiary Elektron Bomb M38



or one of these - a series of small bomb (2kg to 25kg) produced by Tolvan in the mid 1930s

 

[Ruuti]

Thanks!
It's definitely one of those. The tail body has rivets like in your pictures.
And yes, it was found in Finland. I forgot to mention that important information.

By the way, here is the Tolfvan brochure:

Digitaaliset aineistot - Kansalliskirjasto

digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi

 

[Dreamk]

Yes the brochure is well known, in its 2 versions (English and German) - if I remember well it has even been uploaded in the download section of this forum.
It's an excellent document. However one must be aware that it appears that apparently not all of these models entered in series production or in service.
On the export market, the 12.5kg bomb seems to have been the most successful model. In 1940-1 such bombs were part of the arsenal of the airforces of Denmark and Lithuania (possibly other countries also, but only for these two there is a definitive identification)

This is a picture of the full range of Tolfvan production in 1938 - corresponding the brochure:


And thus is a picture compiling all the drawings of the bombs in the 1938 Tolfvan Brochure:




To come back to your find, note a small correction for the photograph that I posted: it is the Tolfvan 2kg (not 3 kg) M30 incendiary Elektron bomb.

The Tolfvan 3kg M30 fragmentation bomb had a similar fin and a surviving sample has been recently offerrd for sale in a Finnish auction site:

 

[MINENAZ16]

Yes the brochure is well known, in its 2 versions (English and German) - if I remember well it has even been uploaded in the download section of this forum.
It's an excellent document. However one must be aware that it appears that apparently not all of these models entered in series production or in service.
On the export market, the 12.5kg bomb seems to have been the most successful model. In 1940-1 such bombs were part of the arsenal of the airforces of Denmark and Lithuania (possibly other countries also, but only for these two there is a definitive identification)

This is a picture of the full range of Tolfvan production in 1938 - corresponding the brochure:
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And thus is a picture compiling all the drawings of the bombs in the 1938 Tolfvan Brochure:

View attachment 203969


To come back to your find, note a small correction for the photograph that I posted: it is the Tolfvan 2kg (not 3 kg) M30 incendiary Elektron bomb.

The Tolfvan 3kg M30 fragmentation bomb had a similar fin and a surviving sample has been recently offerrd for sale in a Finnish auction site:

View attachment 203970View attachment 203971

this fuze seems to be the same : https://www.bocn.co.uk/threads/id-fuze-from-argentina.106190/#post-329494

 

[Dreamk]

Great eye Minenaze!!!

Here are pictures of both fuzes - first the 3kg Tolfvan Frag M30, then the unidentified one found in Argentina
They look indeed almost identical .

There is no record of Tolfavn bombs in Argentina, although Bofors bombs were tried there in the 1930s at a period when Bofors was still a trademark of Tolfvan. However Bofors bombs had a veru different fuze quite characteristic.

Finland sold indeed quite a lot of of war material to South American countries in the 1930s. Of which bomb this fuze was mounted is another mystery to be solved.....