Help ID unknown LaHitte? type projectile

[cannonmn]

Found in Alaska by EoD, this is inert, please ID. Body dia about 3 inches, have requested more precise measurement.

 

[HAZORD]

Thank God they didn't blow it up!

 

[Alpini]

hmm, do they grow in Alaska, or is it the same shell:

http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threa...-a-12-pdr-RML-artillery-shell?highlight=swiss

 

[cannonmn]

hmm, do they grow in Alaska, or is it the same shell:

http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threa...-a-12-pdr-RML-artillery-shell?highlight=swiss

Thanks, I missed that thread. Interesting-the fuze looks very close in design to a recent US mortar shell illumination fuze, M82 or so, which is nearly all zinc but must very similar in function and design. Both the old and new are PTT.