Tony; Another great shell casing and FANTASTIC photos to accompany it. The photo of the Blucher rolling over is amazing!! I've not seen a shell casing with both the Navy and Army Artillery flaming bombs on it!! Love the Big Bang Theory. Dick
I forgot to ask, was it a common practice to mark the amount of times a shell casing had been reloaded?? I'm sure, like any reloaded casing, they can wear thin. I've never seen this marking before, but I'm new to shell casings. Dick
=D> =D> =D> Very nice Tony! I was on the way to work this morning, when I saw a brown 'cylinder' sticking out of a farmer's trash beside the road and wondered if he was tossing a BIG casing like these (around here, that's possible).... anyhoo, I did take a look, it was a roll of old linoleum! :lol: But, worth the look, just in case!
Yep. That is standard practice. Dots with no year indicate re-loading on the year of manufacture, subsequent years would (usually) be marked with at least one dot. I have dots in quite a few Cartridge Casings. Some, like my 42cm Big Bertha have hash marks like this l l l which must also mean reloading. At some point, the casing was too thin as you noted and into the melting pot it went to come out as something else.
I was questioned by several why I photographed a cartridge casing SMS Blücher with a Model 1916 Stahlhelm. This would have been worn by the crews of the Peter Adalbert Eisenbahngeschütze using this cartridge casing in 1918.
So, I have changed the photo to one of the cartridge casing with my Deckoffizier Schirmmutze and changed the background to the Marine pattern.