ID German WW1 round

[MINENAZ16]

Help with this one, any idea ?
(described as 15cm).




from this gallery : https://www.flickr.com/photos/drakegoodman/page1

 

[MINENAZ16]

Maybe a specialist could recognize the gun ?



last picture in page 26 : https://www.flickr.com/photos/drakegoodman/page26

 

[Alpini]

Hello,

I don't think it's a German gun. Carriage and barrel look like a Schneider-Canet construction. So probably 152 mm caliber. Possibly a captured Russian 6-inch coastal defense gun.

 

[MINENAZ16]

Thank you.
So this kind of gun (no exactly the same, examples of russian 6in)

 

[Alpini]

Yes these are good examples. I think the gun on the modern photo is exactly the same. On the gun from the old picture parts of the original carriage were removed. The spring recoil brake is good visible on the old picture and the photo. Another larger picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/152_45_C_Kuivasaari_2009-08-02.JPG

The very long cases for these guns were offered in Finland some time ago - three different case lengths existed:

http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/102988-Finish-152-mm-case?highlight=finnish+case