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Fuze and Projectile ID

Hi Pete,

On first view, I should think of a Austria-Hungarian proj, but not sure !
There are different models of this kind of proj. Should you have dimensions ?


Yoda
 
Unfortunately i don't have any other information. I'm going through my hard drive and trying to ID unknown items.

Cheers

Pete
 
it's not an austro-hungarian fuze, they had much different looking time fuzes. The shell is standard Krupp design which had not much difference between the countries which bought these. Is the fuze and ring made of aluminium? It looks like an incomplete prussian C/73 Feldschrapnellznder (which would be wrong on this shell) but this fuze was always made of brass.
 
Thanks for the help, like i say i have no other information. I 'm just hoping to get some more info on it.

Cheers

Pete
 
John is right, that's the correct fuze. The name of the fuze is "8 cm Feldschrapnellznder C/70" and in this case it's the right fuze for this 8 cm C/70 shell. Just the fuze primer is missing (it's the same as for C/73 fuze). This also explains, the the fuze body is made of white metal because I forgot to remember this rare C/70 fuze...

@John: his Name is "Peter Vo" which can be also written "Peter Voss" without a german keyboard
 

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Alpini,
Thank you for the drawing of the fuze. Was this from your personal collection?
Then is the fuze German like the shell?
Regards,
John
 
Hello John,

yes both is german (prussian). This fuze was between Richter's time fuze (1869) and the C/73 time fuze (made of brass) and used on 8 and 9 cm shrapnel shells only. So there can't be many of them. It's the first I have ever seen. The drawing is from Abendroth's book "Die Znder der preussischen Artillerie" 1899.
 
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thanks Alpini, is Abendroth's book available for download?
Best Regards,
John
 
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