unknow projectile

[pat]

good evening, who know this projectile, can be Austrian or Italian ww 1, diameter approximately 75 mm

 

[rcbutcher]

Could this be a caseshot ?

 

[pat]

Could this be a caseshot ?

with safety fuse ??

 

[highlandotter]

Austrian grenade?

Hello. This looks a lot like an Austrian improvised grenade that I had a while back. It was armed with a ring of steel bars about 9-10mm around a center can and in the center can had a half stick of dynamite(just the wrapper after being dis armed). The end caps were a bit deformed in the disarming process, but it sure resembled your photos.The general thinness of the casing tends to increase the likeliness of it being a grenade. Only other thing I can think of is a cannister load for a muzzle loading gun.

 

[pat]

it's too heavy for one grenade

 

[dano1917]

Austrian petard charge

I am almost certain it is Austrian WW1 petard charge improvised grenade/bomb. Have seen one before that was very similar...Dano

 

[John D. Bartleson Jr.]

??

Not any cannister for smoothbore rifles that I know of.
John

 

[highlandotter]

Austrian grenades were often over 1 kg or more. They were not tossed like a Mills, rather often flung down the mountain at the lower trenches. The distanace between trenches in the mountains was much shorter that the Western front. I just checked my references, and there are easily over a dozen over 1 kg in weight. In my collection of over 130 WW1 grenades, the Austrians stood out for the relatively huge mass. I wondered if there were a lot of Austrian soldier ancestors of Arnold Schwartzenger?