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Hi,

I just got this french Kepi for a Colonel of infantry regiment 80. Any idea about its date? WW1 and before, is it original and what could be a "normal" price for it? Thanks!

It is a german "Gewehrgranate 17" or "ink pot", as it was called by the british. It is the german version of the french Vivien Bessiere rifle grenade, which can be fired with a life cartridge. It think it contains about 40 g of TNT.

I've forgotten what this is exactly and how many grams of TNT are still inside but I think Jens said it is a French rifle grenade. Something he hasn't seen there before.

What is it again Jens including how much TNT it has, was it 14g?

They are back...

Remains of a shoe/boot...

Yep.

Is that the one for the Armierungs Batln. you mentioned?

More for Rick L....

Something for Rick L. to get more scared...

Nature is conquering even a stick grenade!

The remains of a german Stahlhelm...

The bottom of a 30,5 cm shell (Krupp K?stenm?rser - coast mortar). In the hole in the middle was the fuse attached to it.

A bavarian monument on the german cemetary of Azannes.

And a german "Leichte Gasmine" I never saw before on the battlefield of Verdun. Note the strange "shoulders" under the fuze which identify it as a Gasmine. It is also longer than the normal HE mine and the forest workers marked it with a special color code!

Two items you shouldn' t touch!

An unfired german 15 cm shell. On the closeup you can see the stamps on its fuse. Its a Granatz?nder 04 with the maker Siemens & Halske and date 1915.

Please all participants of the trip, PM me your eMail adress.

Thanks!

Before leaving to drive back home today we decided to start a new thread for the photos which I will do in a second starting off with a pic of the magnificent 5.

Tony

Ok gentlemen, lets do it And lets have a beer for Stogie!

PS: David, I mailed you.

The "Pour le Merite" from Baden... Very beautiful!!!

No farting and no cuban cigars in a 4-person room please.

Sounds good gentlemen. Those who need my handy-number, please PM me. I hope everyone will take rain clothes and some "Eiserne Portionen" with him (soup for example to heat in the forest).

Don't worry, if a shell doesn't decides spontaneously to fulfill its duty after 90 years, we will be quite safe. If you find something, you are not 105% sure about, don't touch it and let me know.

Thanks guys. Rick, what do you think about the academy badges from me? The crest looks a little bit strange. One looks like copper.

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