Please identify artillery shell.........
My wife and I went to an estate sale yesterday. I brought home an old empty brass artillery shell to decorate my den and I need help in dentifying it.
Dimensions are: 12 inches long, 2.25 inches I.D. at the mouth and about 3 inches base diameter. on the base is printed.....W.N.Y.....
10-1904....6 Prd.....E.C.P.....S.P.F.
Between the E.C.P. and the S.P.F. is a figure of an anchor.
I was wondering if this was a Navy round and what it was called.
Thanks fellas.....
muley
Dimensions are: 12 inches long, 2.25 inches I.D. at the mouth and about 3 inches base diameter. on the base is printed.....W.N.Y.....
10-1904....6 Prd.....E.C.P.....S.P.F.
Between the E.C.P. and the S.P.F. is a figure of an anchor.
I was wondering if this was a Navy round and what it was called.
Thanks fellas.....
muley
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Could it be a 40mm from the Bofors antiaircraft gun? I have a lamp make out of one and its about the same dimensions.
John
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consultant......it could very well be. It looks good in my collection, though. Thanks for the reply.
Muley
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Muley-
Does your signature mean to vote early and vote often?
Pete
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2.25" ID would be about 57mm.....too big for a Bofors. Perhaps an anti-tank round of some sort? The Soviets had a 57mm in WWII (ZIS-2), as did the Brits (the 6-pounder)....could be that's what the "6 Prd" means.
The U.S. also manufactured some copies of the "6 Pounder" as the M1 57mm anti-tank gun to replace the 37mm we had when the war started.0 -
Guess the server burped my earlier reply . . . This would be for the British 'six pounder' - for some reason known only to them, the Brits continued the muzzle-loading cannon identification nomenclature well into the second half of the Twentieth Century. In their system, artillery, AT, AA and tank guns were designated by the weight of the projectile rather than bore diameter. With the anchor insignia, it would have been intended for use by the Royal Navy or perhaps (unlikely!) by a coastal artillery unit. I'm not familiar with the British naval guns of the period, but in that size, it likely would have been a secondary mounting on a capital ship, perhaps for close-in protection from smaller craft. Definitely not AA, though, as there were no airborne threats to naval vessels in 1904. 0 -
Muley, I have your shell's little bro. It is 8 1/4 tall (this includes projectile). Base is 1 3/4. Headstamp reads WN 9-16 KC 1-PDR-H, anchor symbol, J.H.G.
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