Mystery 75mm Artillery Shell ??
Article about: Greetings Found this at a flea market years ago. Still think it is cool. It appears to be a fired 75mm artillery shell of unknown age. It does have some old roman style numbers on the fuse a
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Hi Rob,
So I've managed to find an ageing frenchman that claims to know about a Delivery of french (schneider-creusot) shells to Turkey before the Balkan war for Testing purposes. The shells we're almost completely filled with inert Material except for a small space behind the fuze which housed the visual effect, the fuzes were very real. The Turks turned down the french offer and instead accepted the German offer from Krupp.
Unfortunately He can't remember where He found the information so I can't corroborate.
If anything turns up I'll let you know
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Teck,
Well done mate. Now and again the terminal 'I remember when' that you get on the job does actually turn into a 'tell me more'.
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