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For which country ?

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Bellifortis

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This is a fuze for a 75mm mountain gun, produced in 1939 at Rheinmetall company for export. Is anyone of you able to say from the characters which country this is made for. These are oriental characters, but what language ?
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Bellifortis.
 
Im probably total wrong but looks more like middle eastern writing rather than Asian.

I would have guessed Turkish.

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Turkey maybe, but don't think Afghan don't think they have the infrastructure to LAP fuzes at least now, but in 1939????. For sure not Asian. There was another similar fuze posted awhile back with pretty much the same characters was it ever ID'd?
 
Wasn't this the Rheinmetall export for Persia/Iran? I have the accompanying cases.
 
I do not collect projektiles.This is the only one I ever purchased. When I bought this 20 years ago Afghanistan was famous all over the world as a country shedding their blood for our freedom against Soviet opression. The guy that sold it to me was not shure, but thought it was produced for Afghanistan at Rheinmetall-Borsig, but not exported because of the start of the war. The landing port of Karachi beiing in British occupied India, this for shure would also not have been possible. I also was impressed by the beautiful condition, with much of the original colour left. The set had been very professionally demilitarized, so I assume this has been done already in wartime for schooling purposes. Attached are some fotos in detail
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Bellifortis.
 

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I thought it was clear that it is a product of Rheinmetall. (as the logo would tell)
 
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Bellifortis said:
The set had been very professionally demilitarized, so I assume this has been done already in wartime for schooling purposes. Regards,
Bellifortis.
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They all come from a lake in Austria and were deactivated by some hobby folks/divers/what so ever people.
 
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