Tool Talk
Picture Forum => Picture Forum => Topic started by: HeelSpur on June 29, 2013, 08:09:01 PM
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Had to pick this up today, its one that didn't turn into trench art.
Its about 15" long and about 4-41/2" in diameter. (didn't measure it)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img607/3127/3ssn.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img832/4743/2rzc.jpg)
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A large shell casing for artillery. When the 105MM was in the later tanks, one got tired lifting and loading these. Nice chunk of brass, will polish up well. I see its build date is WWII, so it is definitely a collectible.
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that is a great find, did you find it at a swap meet ? i seen one of them with dirt and flowers growing out of the shell, I tried to buy it but it was not for sale i tried to explain its not a flower pot and it was to be ruined with dirt and water in side it but that is how it goes again great find congrats.
LEACH
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Got it at an estate sale for $17. I out bid a lady who out bid me on a tool box full of old tools, she won I believe but 2nd prize isn't to bad.
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You just know the part of that that isn't there anymore just ruined somebody's day ....
I have seen the lady's buying them at the flea to put flowers in also, I dunno what it is about flowers, but that's where most of them seem to end up....
Perhaps it goes with the painted handsaws...
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Our pennies were made from spent shell casings from 1944-1946 too.
1943's were steel, war effort stuff.
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After WWII India made EVERYTHING out of shell casings.
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RE: 1965 Ft. Knox, Ky.-saw many of those cut down in lathe-polished to high heaven with Brasso and engraved with officer's name & rank as a desk ashtray-as most people smoked!
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At Ft.. Knox in 1971 they were used full size, to hold the flag and standards behind commanding officers desks, and polished weekly, and not by the officers either.