JensF.

Very beautiful EK!!! Congrats!

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Here is my example of the Golden Honor Medal with Swords:

Compare with this posting here. The battle clasps were sold by another guy at ebay some months ago:

http://www.militaria-fundforum.de/thread.php?threadid=67763

Just added some pictures from the Somme:

http://www.altearmee.org

As long as your next car isn't a 7er BMW...

May I ask what you payed for it?

And if you use shipping by ship (strange sentence)?

You bought only this part or a complete MG08?

Thats yours:

And here my new made repro-propellant discs (paper!). Made up in packages of three each. Thanks again for the picture of the original disc.

Thats normal for a LWMZ 2 fuse. You can attach a cap for night firing on top of it. So it is not possible to see the flame which is coming out of the gas vent of the fuse and makes it harder to find its firing position for the enemy. Here a pic of a LWMZ 2 similar to yours except the thread on top. There were two different methods to attach that night firing cap.

Can you tell me more about the color of your Mine? Is it some kind of feldgrau and are there any markings on it? Could you post more pics of the complete shell? Thanks.

And no, you don't have to light it

Thanks Chip! A nice Nachrichtenmine you have there. This type is ultra rare!!! Your fuse is a LWMZ 2 btw. The late type in zink. When was it made? 1917?

Is there anything stamped on it and what is its diameter (disc and hole in the middle). Many thanks for showing it!!!

Chip, this IS indeed a disc of propellant. It is made out of smokeless NC powder, so you are right with (nitro)cellulose too. Very interesting! How many of them were inside of yours? If you light it, it will burn away quite slow btw.

And filled:

After the description in the data sheet shown above I rebuild the propellant charge out of paper and twine I am not sure if they looked like this but I think I am close...

It looks like Sanskrit: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit

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Here is mine. In my opinion a really fantastic design! They even included the nuke-missiles.

I saw it too and I am not sure. The combination is really strange but maybe not impossible. But I wouldn't bid on it...

Thanks guys!

Stogie: The fuses together with their safety pins for transportation (in german "Vorstecker") were sealed. because after removing the pin the fuses weren't "transport safe" anymore. The lead seal you see here is original (the string not); it is just possible to read the letters "G. B. N." on it which is the stamp of the company "Gebr?der Bing, N?rnberg", a company which build medal toys before the war und during the war fuses, mess tins etc.

Chip: I think the Nachrichtenmine is the most rare one you can get. Interesting story about the fuses; I think the most dangerous part is always the detonator, because of the filling with picric acid it can explode when you beat it, drop it etc. after 90 years. The rest of the fuse is filled with very slow and constant burning black powder for the time setting and two primers which should be quite safe, but according to the laws in different countries, they can be illegal too. The example you see here is completely empty. This disc here was once filled with black powder and was called "Tempierring" to set the time. You can see a scale of seconds on the outside. When it was set to lets say 16 sec. this part of the ring was turned over a hole in the disc below it and the flame could slip through it so light the detonator.

Last part.

And the data sheet from british intelligence 1918: