Spent the afternoon at the Louisville Fairgrounds where this years OVMS Show of Shows took place. I've been going to it for years, but I finally became a member. I think I found most of the ordnance there and bought a good portion of it. The show is on a yearly basis and always around this time of the year. A tremendous amount of Militaria and weapons. A great place to find some odd things. Talked to one gentleman there who had a US WWI 25lb bomb and found out it was our Wichita slum lord. We had a good long talk discussing, needless to say, ordnance. Below is pictured my haul. Got it for 75% of the asking and I'm pretty sure 50% of actual price. The 3" MK II, 20mm ShVak HE, Ni mortar round, 25mm Japanese Hotchkiss AA, and the 20mm Beckers were especially well priced. The M110 nose fuze for the 20lb Frag bomb was an unexpected find. The full up 40mm is a British in a US MK II casing while the other 40mm is IN a British casing. You can see where I'm going with this one. The other two 40mm casings are M25, so I can finally put my US Army 40mm in the proper casing. I have no idea what the links are for but from the markings I suspect they are for the 30mm Rarden. All in all, a great day.
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