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World War I Grenade identification !


Madis

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Hello,

I need Help a bit ! 
 

I've never seen a grenade like this before… Origin ? Manufacturer ?

 

Is anyone able to tell me a little about this grenade, it feels like it is from first World War. 

Markings: E&S 1915 

 

Thank you in advance ! :)

 

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Hi, I cant be 100% but I think this might be a French F! fusante No/ !. However I am not to happy in the fact that this looks as if it still has the wick  in place and the base nut has not been removed, are you sure that this has been de activated , was this from a dealer and if so did he say that if was safe and was it from a good dealer

 

 

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Thanks, these things bug me, I had to deal with a live Mills Grenade, that a guy found when me was out with his dog, and the fool handed in to our Police Station and I had to remove it to our wash down , The fuse had gone down and the handel was missing. We got EOD and were later told that the only thing that was stopplng the fuse was a bit of grit, and it was later blown up by EOD

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36 minutes ago, Davejb said:

Thanks, these things bug me, I had to deal with a live Mills Grenade, that a guy found when me was out with his dog, and the fool handed in to our Police Station and I had to remove it to our wash down , The fuse had gone down and the handel was missing. We got EOD and were later told that the only thing that was stopplng the fuse was a bit of grit, and it was later blown up by EOD


No problem ! :)

 

 

Oh yeah… if no lever and safety pin then could be life threatening consequences…

…It feels like a thrown grenade, but it didn’t explode for some reason ..

 

I sadly find all kind of „live“ stuff quite often while metal detecting, and if I have enough time then I’ll call EOD out, if no then back on the ground where it was.

Best regards,

Madis

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Mills are actually pretty rare thing here in Eastern Europe 

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Can't make out anything meaningful.

Early French F1 were wick ignited, however they had totally different

wick holder design (at least those i've seen). Never seen this.

However E & S is known British marking - Edison & Swan Ltd.

http://tgrm.foxed.ca/British Markings.html

Can you make close up pictures of that wick holder separately?

For "E & S" reference see first post here:

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/188323-ww1-grenades-both-british-and-enemy/page/24/

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Not 100% but I think a lot of these were given to the French and they may have been re worked and the fuses replased and re named,

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11 hours ago, val said:

Can't make out anything meaningful.

Early French F1 were wick ignited, however they had totally different

wick holder design (at least those i've seen). Never seen this.

However E & S is known British marking - Edison & Swan Ltd.

http://tgrm.foxed.ca/British Markings.html

Can you make close up pictures of that wick holder separately?

For "E & S" reference see first post here:

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/188323-ww1-grenades-both-british-and-enemy/page/24/

Very interesting 🤔 French grenade, but English origin fuze.

 

Maybe some kind of military aid or something like that?

 

yes, I can take a photo

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