Hand grenade. genuine or repro?

[queenlatifa]

got my doubts but maybe some experts out there can tell me some more about it ?

TIA

[zwerge]

That looks like a fake to me.

[WW2Hunter]

This a model 24 grenade but I saw the same type with the same lettering type,on a repro site not so long ago...
An original would have a a double lenght cord with a porcelain ball on it and at the end a lead ball which is part of the ignitor.

[klinger]

the date on the top parts is 1939 and on the wood part 1943 that dose not look right to me

[WW2Hunter]

That's correct Klinger, a 1943 model would have the ignitor on top of the grenade...found one a few weeks ago in the Ardennes('43 model)

[Gary J]

Smell the handle !!!!
The handles on these well known copies normally smell of Briwax.
I think these initially were produced for the Band of Brothers and such various WW2 TV/Film series ... and because of popularity, the production was kept on.

I've seen them priced anywhere between £20 and £40 GBP's.

Gary J.

[Steve T]

It is a fake. The important give away is the 'RR'. The first 'R' on originals was backwards. Also the eagle is very stylised.

Saying it is a fake is not totally a bad thing so long as you only paid £20-40 for it. As fakes go, the quality is VERY good. I have 2 myself that I bought knowing they were fakes. However, the price I paid reflected this fact.

Your grenade has the same code as one of mine by the way, yet mine is a Nb.Hgr.39

Nice 'nade......but not 'authentic'. Nice though

Steve T

[jeeeensy]

Hi.. sorry i missed this thread...sorry but it is with out a doubt 100% fake..

I will post a few fakes against genuine m24s for you to Id a fake from a genuine one. or you can go here for a quick look
http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/m24-real-fake-t29362.html

This is a thread i started on BOCN about fake stick grenades.

Regards nick

[Matt L]

The porcelain pull 'donut' is also clearly wrong- it's much too thick; the real ones had a more-or-less circular cross section. Of course as Steve mentioned, the 'R' facing the wrong way is the most damning evidence that this is a reproduction.

[jeeeensy]

Hi...not all R's weere reversed ,this was later changed, I'll look and see if I can dig out some for you.

Regards nick,