help on egg grenade

[al'saad]

today i found egg grenade with percussion fuse stamped M12/25 on fuse cap. never came in touch with one of these. i would appreciate any info and schematics on this one. photos will be uploaded the during evening.

 

[al'saad]

mystery solved...images are here
well, searching trough very poor info i have on pre wwi and wwi hand grenades i concluded that i didn't find no german M17 eihandgrenate, but serbian grenade M 17/25 with percussion fuse which was developed by colonel miodrag vasic and first used on grenades 'VTZ-Vasić M-12/25' which were rectangular and famous by the fact that they were used in assassination of archduke frantz ferdinand in sarajevo on 28 of july 1914.
grenades M-12/25 are first adopted in serbian military in 1912 and used in 1st and 2nd balcan war and wwi. variations of fuse developed for this grenade are with modifications used on different models of serbian and yugoslav grenades as M-35, M-38 and M-50 and M-52.

 

[butterfly]

very interesting write up .......... and another one to cross of your 'found list' no doubt!!!

I'm sure Dano will find this one interesting too!!

regards Kev

 

[paul the grenade]

hers a mint one. mine has no markings on the brass cover.
great find al'saad

 

[dano1917]

The Serbian egg grenades are generally found with no markings, if body original. the Czech version will have kkor24 stamped side above grip ring with additional stamp below ring. the Czech version is the only other side stamped egg I know of beside the "HEH" stamped on side of m1917 German egg grenade...Dano

 

[al'saad]

well, egg grenade i have found has markings but on fuse...interesting is that fuse is marked as older grenade type.