Russian 37mm naval pom pom round

[Rrickoshae]

picked this up the other day. a nice round other than that the wood worms have been having a go around the primer.

 

[super7]

Despite the 'wood worm' a very nice looking specimen and something you do not see every day. Great find.

Regards, Jan
http://www.westernfront.nl

 

[highlandotter]

Very nice. Any, preWW1 Russian rounds are pretty scarce.

 

[womble]

nice find, please see some of the Russian ones I have, the earliest is 1896. cheers womble

 

[highlandotter]

Nice quartet.

 

[jvollenberg]

Does anyone have internal drawings of this? Maybe a page out of the Russian manual?

Joe

 

[Gspragge]

Are you missing the fuze and need to see what one is like ?

 

[Falcon]

I have seen other cases before with similar groups of punch marks around the primer.

Why would this have been done?

There are too many for someone to have been trying to set off the primer and missed.

 

[doctor]

the fuze from this shell

 

[Gspragge]

The same disassembled

 

[jvollenberg]

What fuze is that?

Joe

 

[Gspragge]

I believe a Russian design , but they used a French designed fuze type
in other things, so I hope some one else on site can put an accurate
name to it.

 

[hasag]

Russian socket variant