Old fuze

[SG500]

Thanks for the additional information John and the excellent drawings. Yes I was of the opinion that the longer adaptors would have been charged with black powder too.
Dave.

 

[Bonnex]

Yes thanks Norman you kindly provided the info earlier in the thread, it was the other bits that went with it that I was looking for info about especially the longer ones.
Thanks,
Dave.

Sorry Dave, I was being thick. The tapered brass tubes look like sockets which are part of the shell construction to take a fuze or provide a lead into tube of a Shrapnel shell (or both). The two cartridge shaped sockets are like those for Shrapnel ... but of course a graze (only) fuze wouldn't usually be used for Shrapnel.

 

[SG500]

Fantastic, thanks Norman, that's clarified it.
Dave.

 

[ehre_treue]

for those of us not in the area does he have a telephone number or email addy?