Guess the grenade....

[Chris Boonzaier]

The EKs just for size... does anyone know what this is?

[Hoss]

An old cistern ballcock ?

[IrishGunner]

Some kind of smoke bomb?

[IrishGunner]

French catapult grenade?

[Chris Boonzaier]

Nope, nope and nope.....

[IrishGunner]

Not so much as a "nice try" or "good guess but no cigar"? Boy, your games are no fun...

[Chris Boonzaier]

tut tut... I had you pegged for the generation where not every participant gets a prize? :-)

[Chris Boonzaier]

In all fairness... if you guess this you deserve an E-Beer.... I have only ever seen 2, this one and one for sale on a german site.

[IrishGunner]

tut tut... I had you pegged for the generation where not every participant gets a prize? :-)

Touche.

My kids still hear this from me when they "whine" about something: "Life stopped being fair when you stopped playing T-ball." (T-ball = American game for kids ages 4-6 just learning to play baseball. Hit the ball off of a tee; everyone hits, no outs, everyone scores.)

[IrishGunner]

Some kind of engineer mine with a delay fuze that screws in the top?

[dond]

A Bocce ball grenade for taking out old dudes in polyester pants.

[Chris Boonzaier]

for taking out old dudes in polyester pants.

Now why would I want to harm you and Irish Gunner ??

[dond]

Well, he isss artillery.

Now me, don't even go there.......

[IrishGunner]

Hey, I don't even wear pants...

[Hoss]

Hoss to the rescue:

The B-stoff grenade was made of 2 sheet steel halves put together around a porcelain inner body. A paper filling in between damped the shocks during transport.
This smoke grenade was filled with a toxic fluid which reacted with air and produced a thick white cloud.
The fuze was the brass type as used on the 1913 kugelgrenade which ignited a black powder charge that shattered the body.

Diameter 100mm.

[Chip]

I like the creamy center filling.

[Chris Boonzaier]

Indded... Hoss nails it.

I have only seen one (this one) although a german dealer has one. He lists it as a Blitzhandgranate or Nebelhandgranate.... according to his description used by assault troops. I dont know how accurate that is as this seems to be very early war, predating assault troops.

best

Chris

[Chris Boonzaier]

Other than what Hoss Showed, i cannot find anything more about the grenade online.