✅ SOLVED Here's a brain buster!

[sanford66]

What is this? All of the cone section pieces are brass, base is iron or steel. Was found about 8 inches down. Joe J.

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

Looks like a fuse nose from an anti-aircraft shell or timed artillery burst.

Would be less of a "brain buster" if you provided usable measurements.

 

[sanford66]

You know, when I dug it up I thought it looked like the tip of a projectile military weapon myself??

 

[sanford66]

It is 2 3/4" wide at the base, 2 1/2"tall. It looks very close to the pic but not the same.

 

[nhbenz]

Model 1907 looks pretty possible. Scroll down to the no 85, which is what the British called it: http://www.passioncompassion1418.com/decouvertes/english_fusees_collection_gb.html

 

[sanford66]

Wow, thanks for the help! What are the odds of finding something like that in your backyard in a small Kansas town, but I did! Cool!

 

[aa battery]

Wow i found the same thing 6 months ago.

 

[Bruce R]

Thanks for sharing it, we got a bang out of it ! Lol

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

NHBenz is correct, as usual. A bit more specific ID... your find is a US Model-1907 21-Second Time & Percussion (Impact) fuze, for artillery shells, used mainly in World War One era US and British Shrapnel (anti-personnel) shells. See the diagram below.

 

[smokeythecat]

Backyard find. Incredible. All I found in my back yard was a civil war bullet.

 

[sanford66]

Yes I seriously found it in my backyard! It had been there for a while, was under a tree root. I cleaned it up a little today and it is a model 1907 m. Probably not worth anything but finding stuff like this makes my day.

 

[Tpmetal]

that's an awesome find, crazy it was in your yard

 

[CivilWarSaver]

Yes I seriously found it in my backyard! It had been there for a while, was under a tree root. I cleaned it up a little today and it is a model 1907 m. Probably not worth anything but finding stuff like this makes my day. View attachment 1581578View attachment 1581579View attachment 1581580View attachment 1581581

Wonder why it was in your back yard. I wonder what got it to be there

 

[ToastedWheatie]

Wonder why it was in your back yard. I wonder what got it to be there

Little Tommy playing with Dads war souvenier. ....lol

 

[smokeythecat]

Could be. I played with my dad's WWII stuff all the time. Still have most of it. He's been long gone.

 

[DCMatt]

How did it get there?

The 130th Field Artillery Regiment is a United States Army field artillery regiment, represented in the Kansas Army National Guard by the 2nd Battalion, 130th Field Artillery, part of the 130th Field Artillery Brigade at Hiawatha, Kansas. The regiment was originally organized in 1917 after the United States entry into World War I as the 1st Field Artillery of the Kansas National Guard.