DEACTIVATED INERT. French, 1947 Dated, Unfired Brandt Mle 35 60mm Smoke Mortor. - O 2023 DEACTIVATED INERT. French, 1947 Dated, Unfired Brandt Mle 35 60mm Smoke Mortor. - O 2023 Other Ammunition

DEACTIVATED INERT. This is an unfired French 1947 dated, Brandt Mle 35 mortor was first introduced into service in 1938 and continued until the 1960s. The mortors designation was the (Mortier Brandt de 60mm modele 35) and was a conventional muzzle loading mortor with a firing pin at the bottom of the mortor tube. This smoke mortor round had a cast iron body with a pressed steel fin assembly. The mortor is fitted with a brass nose fuse which has an alloy nose plunger. The mortor has three smoke vent holes in the lower sides of the body and retains some of its original blue painted finish to the top of the mortor and fuze, The top of the body is stamped round its circumference ARS-1947-2-59. The brass propellant primer is headstamped Mle 60mm SL 1947. The price includes UK delivery and no licence is required to possess inert ammunition in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. O 2023