British Ordnance Collectors Network
Join over 14,000 collectors of inert military ordnance. Get expert identification help for shells, fuzes, grenades, and more — plus access our classifieds marketplace and decades of archived knowledge. Free to register, takes seconds.
Date-stamping.
- Thread starter ydnum303
- Start date
dates
I dont think a time was set from whence onward cases were dated, certainly virtually all WWI were date stamped. Think this came up some while ago in a slightly different form as I seem to remember looking thru my stuff to find the earliest date. 2pr
I dont think a time was set from whence onward cases were dated, certainly virtually all WWI were date stamped. Think this came up some while ago in a slightly different form as I seem to remember looking thru my stuff to find the earliest date. 2pr
Earliest date.
Yes, the earliest date I can find on my cases is a "96" (for 1896) on a 6-pdr made by RL, which also has a "I" stamped under it (for Mk.I?). However, 6-pdr Mk. III cases by Kynochs (which I presume are later) have no date stamp.
Some cases have a 4-digit year stamp, plus a full day-month-year stamp (loading date?).
Knowing the military authorities, there must have been an instruction issued at some point that all cases, whether made by contractors or the Government, should have the date stamped on, but when did this occur?
Does anyone have any British cases with dates earlier than 1896?
Roger.
Yes, the earliest date I can find on my cases is a "96" (for 1896) on a 6-pdr made by RL, which also has a "I" stamped under it (for Mk.I?). However, 6-pdr Mk. III cases by Kynochs (which I presume are later) have no date stamp.
Some cases have a 4-digit year stamp, plus a full day-month-year stamp (loading date?).
Knowing the military authorities, there must have been an instruction issued at some point that all cases, whether made by contractors or the Government, should have the date stamped on, but when did this occur?
Does anyone have any British cases with dates earlier than 1896?
Roger.
Chris 42 RQ
Well-Known Member
No stampings for a reason
Just as an aside here do not be confused by unstamped cases as a majority of experimental cases in the smaller calibres 57mm and smaller were frequently not stamped with any markings at all-well why tell everyone what it is?
Just as an aside here do not be confused by unstamped cases as a majority of experimental cases in the smaller calibres 57mm and smaller were frequently not stamped with any markings at all-well why tell everyone what it is?