German 1945 Improvised grenade

[VolksJager]

Got this one in this afternoon direct from Poland. You dont see these come up all that often so I nabbed it for a reasonable price. Thought its not in the best of conditions its still solid and far from flaky. But first here is some info:

It's original use was as a parachute-dropped "Splitterbombe SD 0,5kg" , but towards the end of the war with munitions at a low it was now issued with a grenade pullfuze. (BZE39 pictured)

The body is made of steel and has a screwed on top plug, which holds a BZ40 friction fuze.

Length body: 60mm. Width 35mm.
Total length varies with fuze type.
Weight: 500gram, Filling 31gram.



For these pictures I used my best BZE39 fuse (1944 dated) to give you and idea of size and action but have since replaced it with a similar 1944 dated version which fits with the look of the grenade more. Its alot smaller than I had thought, smaller than the M39 Egg grenade but I could see it still doing some damage. Would have been ussied with the late was concrete egg grenades and the M45 Volkshandgrenate.

Thanks for looking
Jason

[AIF]

Hi mate how did you go getting that into Australia? Any hassles?

Cheers Luke.

[VolksJager]

Hiya Luke,

Nah no hassles, at the end of the day its an empty metal container with a screw cap. Unless you know what it is you would probably think of it as an old car part or something.

Jason

[lebus12]

Very nice item!

[cricketchris1944]

Hiya Luke,

Nah no hassles, at the end of the day its an empty metal container with a screw cap. Unless you know what it is you would probably think of it as an old car part or something.

Jason

That is what I do.
Old car part ,engine parts.
chris

[VolksJager]

Does anyone have a 1945 Cardboard Volkshandgrenate?

Jason