Trench Art

[Don D.]

I love the patina on these two 75mm casings. I'd like to know what gun they went too if possible.
Thanks in advance.

[RonR]

Don,

Perhaps the French 75mm Cannon....

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[klarkon]

WW1 US 75x350R shell case
B.H = Bartlett-Hayward Company, Baltimore, Maryland
EMC = ???

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U.S. WWI 75mm HE common steel shell Mark I and shrapnel Mark I projectiles, and the U.S. and French fuzes that were used with them. They are L to R:

* Rare shrapnel, antiaircraft, Mark I with 21 second antiaircraft fuze MK III.
* Common shrapnel, Mark I with 21 second time & percussion fuze
M1907M.
* Common steel shell Mark I with point detonating fuze MK IV.
* Common steel sheel Mark I with French 24/31 Mle 1914 percussion fuze.
* Common steel shell Mark I with French 24/31 PR model 1916 percussion
fuze of the Peuch - Remondy design.
* Common steel shell Mark I with point detonating fuze MK V.
* Common steel shell Mark I with French 24/31 model of 1915 - 1916 time
& percussion fuze.
* Common steel shell Mark I with French 24/31 RYG model 1918
Instantaneous detonating fuze of the Remondy - Gaba design.
* Common steel shell Mark I with French 24/31 RY model 1917
Instantaneous detonating fuze of the Remondy design.
* Common steel shell Mark I with French 24/31 LD model of the 1917 -
1918 time & percussion fuze. (LD for Longue Distance or Long Distance).
* Common steel shell Mark I with point detonating fuze M46 (post WWI
fuze).
* Common steel shell Mark I with point detonation fuze MK III with
centrifugal plunger safety device.
* Common steel shell Mark I with point detonating fuze MK III.

[Don D.]

Thanks for the info guys. They are certainly longer than German 77mm casings. Now to find a projectile w/fuze.

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