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The real stuff and his toy brother... (need identification)

DOODLE

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Can somebody explain to me why I can't find what type of grenade this is altough I also have it as a toy???
(Maybe I'm just bad at googling...) ps: click pictures to enlarge. :)

My friend's (french?) grenade
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My toy... (anti-stress squishy toy) -edit: this is a pic from the net, but mine is exactly the same-

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Thanks
 
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thanks for your reply xPANZERx,

The fuse and spoon do match, yet the neck of the body is different.
The only information I can still give is that this is found on a "flea"-market in Belgium.
And I've read an article on a dutch news-website about an elderly woman who found
2 grenades in her home in the Netherlands.
link to article: http://lijn17.nl/politie030/
One of them was a practice-mortar, the other a "fake" grenade, I've
save the picture that went with it:
mortiergranaat-ter-aar2.jpg
 
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Hahahahahaha, you mean I've spent all this time searching for a sigaret lighter? :tongue:

Oh well, a new fun story to tell. ;-)

Thanks for the effort guys.
 
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