WW1 FRENCH EXPERIMENTAL GRENADE

Sold to the museum as an experimental French grenade. It measures 66mm diameter and 75mm high. No more is known about its origin, it may not be French and it may not be experimental, as during WW1 soldiers on the front line were coming up with all manner of ideas for new explosive devices.

Your comments:

• No such thing as a land mine, that is for civvies and amateurs. Either an anti personnel or anti vehicle mine. 6 Cm is small but not unheard of for a anti personnel item. Again, the size would have been useful, markings, location found, x-ray, date found acquired located or any history of it or even a disassembled picture. Oh, and as always a scale in both metric and imperial.
  .......... Rod, Oxfordshire, 18th of December 2023
  
  
• This does not fit as a grenade. It is more likely an anti-personnel mine. Pictures of the inside of the fuze, (or an X-ray) would enable positive identification.
  
  It is too small to be a Land mine, only 60mm across.
  Ed.
  
  .......... Rod, Oxford England, 28th of January 2019
  
  

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