Hand Grenade ID

[Centralvic]

Also from Alsace in France, I have been told the grenade is French and that instead of a metal handle
which would be released and activate the fuse, these had a match of some description in the open end
and the fuse would be activated by hitting the top of the grenade against something solid.
When found the grenade was still full of degraded explosive, I found several during the day which like this
one had not exploded.

 

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[Blacksheep]

Foug grenade, ww1 as suggested here. (scroll down)

My best sleep-deprived edumacated guess.

http://www.passioncompassion1418.com/decouvertes/english_grenades_fr.html

 

[EDDE]

Foug grenade, ww1 as suggested here. (scroll down)

My best sleep-deprived edumacated guess.

http://www.passioncompassion1418.com/decouvertes/english_grenades_fr.html

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The ‘Foug’ grenade
1916, nicknamed ‘Citron’ (‘Lemon’) was manufactured in Foug, a small french city close to Toul and Nancy. This 'citron' ('lemon') was a 1916 evolution of the Foug 'asperge' (‘asparagus’) grenade … !

Good fragmentation thanks to the optimization of the explosive charge shape, low manufacturing cost. Its shape was obviously at the origin of its nickname ‘citron’ ('lemon’) grenade. The ignition system was based on a striker placed in a wooden cork acting as a humidity insulator (disappeared on some of the photographed specimens).

Without any safety system (pins), it was thus rather dangerous in spite of a simple metallic sheet cover out of sheet placed on the detonator for the transport.
Weight 550 gr., 90 gr. of cheddite.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Good call Blacksheep and nice find Centralvic.

 

[DD-777]

Cool find (although I'd be a bit nervous finding that in the hole)...