Topic: German? Shell Case

MontyB · August 23rd, 2008

My guess is that if your measurements are correct it is a shell for the 9cm C73/1873 Feldkanone.

As I understand it the bulk of German artillery during WW1 were 7.7cm, 10.5cm or 15cm guns however just after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-73 they did produce a 9cm (Actual 8.8cm) piece known as the 9cm C73/1873 Feldkanone (there were also updated models designated as the C73/1879, C73/1888 and C73/1891) which saw service through to the end of WW1 with the German Artillery.

However that being said we do have a lot of artillery personnel on these boards I am sure one of them will know a lot more than I do on this issue.

PS. If there is a %Cu or a % anything somewhere on the shell it can be used to determine the purpose of the shell itself.

August 23rd, 2008
MontyB	My guess is that if your measurements are correct it is a shell for the 9cm C73/1873 Feldkanone. As I understand it the bulk of German artillery during WW1 were 7.7cm, 10.5cm or 15cm guns however just after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-73 they did produce a 9cm (Actual 8.8cm) piece known as the 9cm C73/1873 Feldkanone (there were also updated models designated as the C73/1879, C73/1888 and C73/1891) which saw service through to the end of WW1 with the German Artillery. However that being said we do have a lot of artillery personnel on these boards I am sure one of them will know a lot more than I do on this issue. PS. If there is a %Cu or a % anything somewhere on the shell it can be used to determine the purpose of the shell itself. We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld Last edited by MontyB; August 23rd, 2008 at 00:32..