What on earth is this?

[Spitace41]

This grenade body has been hollowed out and made into a matchbox holder. It looks like the body of an unfinished Mills bomb but I do not know for sure. Any ideas?

 

[paul the grenade]

This is a practice grenade used by the Home Guard in WW2. It would have a small gunpowder charge and a simple bickford fuze and the top was closed by a wooden block.
Cheers, Paul.

 

[roller63]

Merioneth Home Guard Grenade

Missed this thread the first time around, look at this link to see my example and copy of explanatory letter that came with it. Tony.
http://www.lexpev.nl/grenades/europe/unitedkingdom/unknown2.html

 

[Freaky]

That was a funny bugger of a grenade but a nice little funny bugger.
A lucky find, congratulation.

Cheers