Help to identify old shrapnel shell age

[Old artillery]

Hello, can anyone help identify this shell? Measures 12? long and 3? wide. Shell is iron with brass band about 1? up from the base that is marred from being fired. No stampings or marks. Painted red white and blue with stars and looks to have had a lead projectile tip applied to make it look complete and painted gold.
Think it is a shrapnel shell, but what era? Civil War?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

It appears to be a World War 2 era US 75mm Armor-Piercing Solid-Shot projectile. What you are calling the "lead projectile tip" is actually an aluminum cap, applied to give the projectile's blunt top a more aerodynamic shape. It's official military name is a "Ballistic Capped Shot." See the diagram below. The photo shows a 37mm specimen missing the aluminum cap.

 

[BC1969]

I had some like that.
They are sitting at 14,000 feet in the Pacific ocean.

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[crashbandicoot]

I had some like that.
They are sitting at 14,000 feet in the Pacific ocean.

How did they get 14,000 feet deep in the Pacific?Just curious.

 

[BC1969]

They're not actually.
I wish I never found those things.
Not like you can just get rid of them.

 

[BC1969]

I did think about having a friend who works a cargo ship route.
They probably wouldn't bother anyone down there.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

In case anybody missed seeing the words SOLID-SHOT in my identification of the projectile which started this thread:
Solid steel, through-and-through... not hollow, so no explosive in 'em whatsoever.