Unknown 60mm Mortar bomb

[Dronic69]

Good Evening All,

Can anyone ID this mortar round - country, period?

Definitely 60mm (measured), but no marking except on the brass fuse body:

7 - /\ -

50 . 6 14 l

Thanks

Cheers
Drew

 

[US-Subs]

No time to dig in the pubs today, but I believe that the triangle shown on the fuze was a Chinese marking.

 

[blu97]

could be this one with another fuze, hope you can read chinese.

 

[Dronic69]

Very interesting - seems to imply a "1931" year date, but the Chinese Type 31 copied the American M2 which was based on the French "Stokes-Brandt" 1935 model according to this:

http://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/detail.asp?smallarms_id=178

(perhaps my Chinese just sucks!)

:bigsmile:

BTW - I don't recall the Chinese following a similar dating system as that of the Japanese (i.e Showa) to imply that "Type 31" referenced a specific year - could be wrong!

 

[ordnance]

Yes, definitely Chinese. Here are some images of one I had a couple years ago and posted here earlier.

 

[Dronic69]

Perfect ID!

Thank you all very much - would the all brass fuze indicate an early manufactured one?

Cheers
Drew

 

[US-Subs]

Early meaning? Figure anywhere from the 50s-70s.