This shell could also be from WWI era as well. All we know right now, is that it looks to be about 10 inches in diameter and is taller than a 55 gallon drum. An Italian 254mm 45 Model 1908 Naval Gun?
William
"Much that once was, is lost. For none now live who remember it."
Naval Gun. Look at the 16 inch projectiles the Iowa class battle ships fire. and some of the british war ships fire. If one were to guess. As I am now. I would say naval projectile.
Just my opinion.
John
I specialize in M1 carbines and Lugers.
Well intertesting thread,hopefully you can get to the bottom of this,you maybe lucky enough to find some markings stamped into the housing to get you a little closer to the truth..I understand what NickW is talking about in relation to driving bands not visible,not just the bands themselves but the deep grooves machined into the housing to accept them..anywho best of luck digging!
I am also thinking this is a Aircraft bomb , never seen fuse holes in the side of a any shell
There is a well known adage that unloaded guns kill people. It means that no firearm should be treated as unloaded just because someone says so. The 'unloaded' gun often goes off and shoots someone. A child, an adult. No-one is discriminated against.
It would apply here too.
The 'deactivated' ordnance can kill you. Just because a friend says it's safe doesn't make it so. How do you know? How does he know? Did the person he got it from say so? How does he know?
Do the drill holes on the fuses mean it's safe or did someone get bored or break too many drill bits trying to make it safe and then give up?
You only get one chance at life, don't screw it up.
Looking for LDO marked EK2s and items relating to U-406.....
If it was meant to be an airplane bomb, then why the unusual shape? What is the purpose of making one flat wide end and a sharp tapered pointy end on the other? Such a design wold hardly be equally weight distributed and would tumble and fall way off the intended target. This is why bombs have fins-to stabilize their fall and keep them on target. Even the giant blockbuster bombs had this configuration-bombs like the British 22,000 pounders -not to mention the enormous Hydrogen bombs had tail fins. You'd be hard put to find a bomb that didn't have a snub nose and fin tail. The shape this thing has shows it was designed to Penetrate armour, not simply fall onto something and explode.
William
"Much that once was, is lost. For none now live who remember it."
Hi, i believe this is an artillery shell, not a bomb.
And if this is still live, go in the opposite direction.
Some people never learn.
Leave these things alone!!!
"Look an unexploded bomb, lets touch it", "BOOM"
"It hurts so much"
This thread is another example of it
https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/searc...-shell-335669/
Looking closely at the original photos, you can see that there was another outer covering that has mostly come away,I would suggest that the drive bands were there at one time and are now missing ,because of the outer 'skin', this would have been thick enough to conceal the raised section around the fuse area thereby leaving a smooth faced shell, who knows why the configuration of the two fuses,but they are present and suspect.The hole in the nose cap was probably used to screw the cap into the shell, it may well be an Italian shell as the Navaronne guns were Italian, but the fuses could well be German
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