"Shiny thing"

[HughN]

Sorry about the small photo (its from a mobile 'phone) but this has just been found on a table in my local. I wondered if anyone would be kind enough to identify it?



Thanks,
Hugh

P.S. I do know that one of them is a ten pence coin!

 

[ydnum303]

Looks like a .303 bullet with a damaged nose.

 

[HughN]

Looks like a .303 bullet with a damaged nose.

Thank you. No idea how it got there!

 

[917601]

Use a micrometer and measure the OD. Are you sure it is .303 British? Yours appears to be made of cupro-nickel ( silver in color). They used lots of cupro- nickel in WW1, and up to WW2. I have a few vintage MG belts of Maxim 7.62x54 Finnish made, VPT headstamped, dated 1937-1940, I kept a few can fulls because they are " silver", and the belts are an impressive 12 ft long.

 

[HughN]

It turns out it was found in a box of Nazi memorabilia discovered in a roof: this was one of the few things without a swastika.

I'll measure it.

Thanks.

 

[Falcon]

Do you have any photos of the other items from the box?

 

[HughN]

No, sorry.