French/Belgian shell fuze?

[Burney Davis]

Can anyone point me in the right direction as to the designation of this fuze, age and what projectile it would fit. I am assuming it is complete but the threads are so far from the underside of the top it has got me wondering.

Many thanks

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[MINENAZ16]

Hello,

It's a French fuze Schneider ("modle 1915 trac A.1748) used only with 105mm HE Schneider (WW1).

Regards

 

[Burney Davis]

Hello,

It's a French fuze Schneider ("modle 1915 trac A.1748) used only with 105mm HE Schneider (WW1).

Regards

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Many thanks for that Minen. Do you have a picture or diagram of the shell?

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[MINENAZ16]

Diagram of the 105mm Schneider (sorry only pictures of live shells)

 

[Burney Davis]

Diagram of the 105mm Schneider (sorry only pictures of live shells)
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That's fine. So is the insert in the shell diagram an adaptor, and does the fuze screw into that adaptor? I've seen many French/Schneider shells but not one that this fuze would fit. Is the shell an uncommon model?

Thanks again.

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[MINENAZ16]

It's not only an adaptor but a gaine for exploder (25grams of picric acid). The fuze is screwed into this gaine (nomenclature of the gaine : 47.5/55mm Modle 1915)

This shell with this fuze is not very common but we find sometimes unexploded rounds and remnants of fuze on WW1 battlefields.

Regards