Real or Fake Stielhandgranate M24 ?

**Phessor** · 09-10-2023, 10:37 PM

I know this is an old thread, but my internet searching led me to it. I picked up what I thought was a real M24 stick grenade. It wasn't till I looked at it closer that I realized the handle and the warhead have different threads.
The handle has a fine thread and the warhead has a course thread. I have looked all over it and I can only make out some very faint markings on the bottom of the warhead. It appears to be "44 fec" And a black stamp that that may be "?1941" It also appears to have been repainted before the black stamp was applied.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

**Danmark** · 09-10-2023, 10:58 PM

From your pictures it all looks fine to me. You have no cap, pull string or porcelain ball though?

**Ian Hayes** · 09-11-2023, 01:14 AM

Could it be a later war variation on threads?

**Danmark** · 09-11-2023, 01:21 AM

by Ian Hayes

Could it be a later war variation on threads?

Possibly - although I've never seen that ( and it would be awkward to say the least arming them in the field

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**BlackCat1982** · 09-11-2023, 12:13 PM

Fine just missing parts as described already. Maker FEC is Stotz Kontakt GmbH from Mannheim.

**Phessor** · 09-11-2023, 05:15 PM

by BlackCat1982

Fine just missing parts as described already. Maker FEC is Stotz Kontakt GmbH from Mannheim.

Thank you, I just drove through Mannheim this weekend.

**GlennAgain** · 09-11-2023, 06:27 PM

Speaking of Mannheim, my German Grandmother worked in the Armaments Industry there - Producing Communications-Wire for the Wehrmacht - and enduring the Bombing Raids, one of which killed her foreman... It's also my Grandfather's Hometown...

**Phessor** · 09-12-2023, 09:51 PM

From what I can tell looking at this webpage,German Stick Grenades, WWII - Inert-Ord.net my handle is a machined thread and my warhead is for a rolled threaded handle. So it looks like I got taken for on this one. Oh well, I will place it behind something on the shelf.

**Danmark** · 09-12-2023, 10:48 PM

Still, you have original examples of early & late parts. Now you have to hunt down a late handle or early head!!

**BlackCat1982** · 09-13-2023, 09:31 AM

by Phessor

From what I can tell looking at this webpage,German Stick Grenades, WWII - Inert-Ord.net my handle is a machined thread and my warhead is for a rolled threaded handle. So it looks like I got taken for on this one. Oh well, I will place it behind something on the shelf.

Parts get swapped out, it might be a mismatch but everything is original nothing false about this grenade. Parts can be sourced.