A SOLID BRASS BRITISH FUSE SHELL. The time and percussion fu...

Hammer

£40

A SOLID BRASS BRITISH FUSE SHELL. The time and percussion fuze N°80 was the fuze usually used with the British shrapnell shells of the famous 18 pounders fieldguns in WW1. Designed by the German company Krupp in 1905 and manufactured under license in England before the war and during it, its peculiar story will feed the arguments of the believers of a war wanted by the weapons international industry since once the war over, the British company Vickers Armament Industries, who manufactured these fuzes between 1914 and 1918, kindly accepted to pay to Krupp 40 000 £ royalties...