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Czech shell ?

If we were talking about the Czechoslovak version: 8cm Time Grenade vz.19, then in the Czechoslovak regulations it has this design.
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The rim is thin copper... You can also see that the paint was not military for the Czechoslovak Army.
If we go further into history, there is a old-type of the 8cm Granat M.18 type, it looked like this
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Or laboratory drawings Skoda (war product)
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In my opinion, it is an export version or a version that Austria/ Böhler (or another country) had after 1919.
Akon
 
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