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Armstrong No 9 Shell Fuze

siegfreid

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I have been asked to post a scan of this fuze . Thanks for all the interest in these unique pictures !

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Thanks Mike, looks like a base detonating fuze.
Regards,
John
 
This one seems to be a Royal Laboratory Chromo-Lithographic Plate.

The Royal Laboratory produced chromo-lithographic drawings of ammunition material from about 1865 to aid, it is believed, the instruction of officers in the subject. Early drawings were unnumbered but from 1867 they were given plate numbers as a result of the publication of "Ammunition. A Descriptive Treatise &c." Drawings of the Royal Carriage Department and Royal Gun Factory were also issued under their own serials. Production of the RL numerical series of plates was discontinued with effect from 9th May 1904 (notification of issue September 1904) but plates of a similar standard were incorporated in the Treatise on Ammunition volumes post 1904. Some RL numerical series plates appeared, almost unaltered, in the editions of the Treatise on Ammunition prior to 1904.

The last plate of the series was produced in September 1904 [RL Plate 324 Cartridge, QF, 2.95-inch, Shell, Star (Mark I)].
 
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