Identification needed

[ehre_treue]

Can anyone help me identify this object. I found it in a training area used by the French and Germans Through WW1. I can not find this anywhere in a book or on the net. On the bottom of the primer is the following 8 Gevelot 8 Paris. I have found two of these one complete with fins and one without. See pictures below.

 

[hicky1300]

Mortar round tail/s - dimensions would narrow down the caliber etc.
The base that is stamped is the bottom of the projecting cartridge. Gevelot are a renowned Shotgun cartridge maker & basically a shotgun cart is used to launch/fire mortar rounds.
The round is dropped down the launching tube where it is struck on the cart percussion cap by a fixed pin at the base of the tube. Whan the cart discharges the hot gases from the combustion/explosion are directed out of the port holes in the fin/tail section filling the gap between the base of the round body & bottom of the tube with the hot gases that want to expand thereby propelling the round up & out of the tube.

 

[ehre_treue]

10 cm tall from primer to top. Without fins 3cm wide. With fins 5,5 cm wide.

 

[hicky1300]

OK. Thanks for dims. Mortars not my thing but I`m sure someone will be able to ID from those dims.

 

[Chris]

ehre-treue,

Looks like this one.
Thanks to Mr Belot


Chris