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ID ww1 bomb (1)

This is fact is not a ww1 bomb but one a first makeshift aviation bombs, used in the Balkan wars by the Bulgarian.
Beyond an identification of the origin of this photo I had not been able to find more details on this bomb, but it looks very much like an Austro-Hungarian 1kg Brandpfiel equipped with winglets. .
It is a predecessor of the dedicated aviation bombs designed Petrov and later by Tulyev, used in this same conflict by the Bulgarian, and also in ww1. Strangely enough, in ww1, stocks of the Tulyev bomb fell into the hands of the French who used them almost at once (bomb supplies on the Oriental front were problematic from the start.)
 
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