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Unknown item, poss Czech?

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This question forwarded to me - no idea so if anyone recognizes it information would be appreciated. This item has been recovered from an old post blast site clearance area, tentative ID from the site is a 10.5cm Skoda Model 15. Question is, what is the glass item in the nose? All the info I have. Anyone seen this before?

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I can not give You a positive ID nor confirm it as a Czech item, but I would be EXTREMELY careful with any ammunition containing glass inside.
Bob
 

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Is it glass for sure? Or may be black Bakelite? Some german AP shells had half round Bakelite pieces as a "buffer" inside. And they may well be found broken at this point on a blast site because of the hardened steel nose. Maybe these buffers also exist made from glass.
 
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Alpini, thanks for the info, I'll pass it on.

Nabob, thanks for the good intentions, but...… really?
 
Yea, I realize this is a little farfetched.
I think you know best what your guys brought back from Europe, twice.
Here it is just a question of a simple x-ray.
It is hard to make any decisions just on these two pics. I think our French and Belgian friends have much more experience in this topic.
Ultimately it is up to the guys on the range.
Glass inside a projectile is always strange. Once we had a bottle inside a shrapnel body in a foundation of a statue. There was a message to "future generations" inside.
I hope we get some more info of the results.
Bob
 
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