WWI French Besozzi

[orcutteod]

Made a grenade trade last weekend and ended up with this French made Besozzi. He also has an Italian made Besozzi I think both of them are fairly hard to find.

 

[siegfreid]

Nice grenade . Here's a scan of the difference . The Italian one is on the left & much smaller than the French version & has a welded top . Also , the Italian ones are MUCH rarer than the French ones . Hope this is of interest to you . Siegfreid.

 

[Millsman]

Nice Grenade! The fuze is especially rare I don't think I've seen an original before. John

 

[orcutteod]

Thanks for the replies at the moment I'm working on finding or making a plug for the bottom. The threaded hole is 12mm and I have to figure out the thread pitch, which is fairly fine.

 

[orcutteod]

Enclosed is a picture of the grenade with a plug I modified from a brass M12 bolt. The grenade thread pitch was 1.7, which isn't common the bolt thread was 1.75, so it was a little tricky to do without messing up the grenade threads.

 

[siegfreid]

Very nice job but the originals are mild steel & recessed into the base .

 

[orcutteod]

Enclosed is another picture showing the plug to be flush with the base of the grenade. The only other M12 bolt I had was stainless steel and I ruined it trying to rework the threads.

 

[siegfreid]

Here's how the original looks .