Featured 1943 25 Pounder ARTillery Shell Vase

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  1. Marote

    Marote Well-Known Member

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    Found (and bought) this British (right?) artillery shell vase yesterday at a thrift store :)
    Can someone tell me more about the meaning of the letters and numbers?
     
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  2. komokwa

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  3. daveydempsey

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    Its British military indicated by the Broad Arrow (War Dept) mark.
    Looks like the date is 1943.
     
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  4. Marote

    Marote Well-Known Member

    Thank you for the confirmation re country and year.
    Any idea what the rest (BB/C, Cr/C, and the numbers) means?
    I read that the marks include the manufacturer's code and the charge info. Might Cr/C stand for Reduced charge with cordite? And then BB/C being the manufacturer?
    It would also have the date of manufactoring, but I see 2 dates. Or is the 1st the date of manufacturing of the shell and the 2nd for the filling?
     
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  5. daveydempsey

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    I don't know what the other markings represent, you will have to look them up on a military shell casing site.
    Its now a planished piece of trench art which I suppose could be used as an umbrella stand.
     
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  6. Marote

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    I found a two sites yesterday, and one had that Reduced charge information for CR (not for CR/C), but noting re BB/C. And the other site had a lot of information regarding the marks on the side of the shells, but not much about the bottom.

    It would indeed make a nice umbrella stand, but in this case it would have to be cocktail umbrellas, as it's the size of a small vase :)
     
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  7. daveydempsey

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    If its small vase size then its obviously been cut down, 25 pounder shell casings are much longer.

    See this pile in Normandy WWII.

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  8. Marote

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    Maybe I gave the wrong idea calling it small. And definitelly with that cocktail umbrella comment...
    It's 21 cm/8.26" (so it could actually serve as a collapsible umbrella stand!) and that doesn't include the rim.
    And according to this image
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    that does seem to be around the normal size of the shell (excl. the cap)
     
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