Early grenade

[US-Subs]

Anyone recognize this grenade? Could be experimental. All I can tell is that the guy on the left is laying in poison ivy....

 

[pointblank0]

Possibly a pippin grenade?

 

[US-Subs]

Don't know. I just got 24lbs of grenade stuff, photos, reports, notes - from WWI through about 1960, that I'm able to review and scan. Lots of stuff I've never seen before. Much of it is experimental, going to be weeks of work trying to record it all before It has to be returned.

 

[pointblank0]

I really didn't mean to say Pippin grenade. I was meaning the no 27 rod version (mk?, possibly 2?) Though I would have thought that this type of grenade and fuze would have been quite unreliable as a rifle grenade

 

[sgtlynn]

I think you are right No. 27 Mk. I, also used by the Americans during the First war.

 

[Edwardc]

looks very similar, like you guys say to the no 27