Prussian oddities (never seen before 19th century fuzes)

[nachtwuenscher]

Hi Gr.Fr.!
It's always nice not being alone in this thread. Post, whatever looks uncommon!
Your fuze is in a really nice condition: It's the inner wooden part of a fuze that was used for petards to break passages into frozen rivers. That's all I can contribute.

 

[Gr.Fr]

Hi Gr.Fr.!
It's always nice not being alone in this thread. Post, whatever looks uncommon!
Your fuze is in a really nice condition: It's the inner wooden part of a fuze that was used for petards to break passages into frozen rivers. That's all I can contribute.

Hi,nachtwuenscher!
Thank you)) So we assumed)))
Here is my small collection of Prussian fuses) But there are no such experimental ones as yours

 

[nachtwuenscher]

This time I can show you only half a fuze -whoever knows how the other half might have looked like or can even put a name on this piece will be thanked more than the thank-button is able to thank.
The fuze itself has two time rings from 0-315 (numbers from 10 - 310, might be hm or 1/10th of a second or whatever), It seems to be manufactured in 1888 (there is an 88 stamped into one of the fuze setting grooves. The stem in the lower part seems to contain a needle like it was used in Doppelzdr c/91 and later. The top part resembles the old Fedlschrapnellzünder series with the minor difference that the massive (bolt) Schlagstück is secured only by two delicate copper sheets that could be bent easily even at low muzzle velocity - so maybe it was used on some kind of mortar shells.

 

[nachtwuenscher]

New year, new stuff. Some minutes ago I was able to swap this beauty from a friend (a nice AZ23 had to go). It resembles the Zündvorrichtung c/73-experiment shown in #17 ( which I unfortunately could not disassemble. Enjoy!

 

[nachtwuenscher]

Happy belated Easter!

I was busy in obtaining the second half of the fragment shown in post #18 (.
Here we go: again there is no safety pin involved. The mechanism is similar to the c/80 but with a lot more parts used. Enjoy!

 

[nachtwuenscher]

Sorry for nearly one year of silence. Today I want to show you an experimental Zündvorrichtung c/73 -lookalike. I assume that the strange looking head helps to prevent the whole Zündvorrichtung from being unscrewed on impact.

 

[nachtwuenscher]

And as a bonus an UFO shaped zinc object. It comes with a c/80 impact fuze and fits exactly on a c/73 Feldschrapnell so I think that it might have been used to use up stocks of shrapnels for practicing with life shells - shrapnels contain less explosives and maybe this was safer for the gun crew than using actual HE shells. Any other ideas?

 

[Bellifortis]

An interesting object.These are all Black Powder munitions, not HE. But, how was this zinc object with the fuse fastened to the shell ?

 

[nachtwuenscher]

Hi Bellifortis,
yes, I know they have a black powder filling - just wanted to pronounce the difference between shrapnel and the "standard" shell. Concerning your question: The threading is torn apart/blown away from the bottom of the UFO - It should have concealed the c/80. The remains have the same diameter as a c/73 thread.