INERT DEACTIVATED. Rare, British WW2, 29mm Blacker Bombard Spigot Practice HE (High Explosive) Mortar. Sn - 22846:78 INERT DEACTIVATED. Rare, British WW2, 29mm Blacker Bombard Spigot Practice HE (High Explosive) Mortar. Sn - 22846:78 Other Ammunition

The Blacker Bombard 29mm spigot mortar was developed by Colonel Stewart Blacker as an anti-tank weapon after the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, The Blacker Bombard lacked the tube that characterized conventional mortars. Instead, the Bombard featured a steel rod, the spigot that fit to a base plate and the mortar is slid onto it for firing. The bomb itself included a propellant charge in its tail. The Bombard was used solely as a Home Guard weapon except for some used by the regular British Army for the defence of coastal gun batteries. The spigot launcher of the Blacker Bombard inspired the designers of the much more successful PIAT that was used in regular army service. This is a rare to find 14 lb practice HE (high explosive) Blacker Bombard spigot practice mortar had which has a concrete filled cast iron projectile. The mortar has cast into it round the circumference CI (Cast Iron) 29mm SM (29mm Spigot Mortar) 14lb (projectile weight) 15 7/8/?? (manufacture date). The projectile is fitted with a steel spigot screwed into the projectile and a pressed steel riveted fin assembly at the bottom where the cartridge goes. The mortar originally used cut down 20mm Madsen cartridges cases as the primer. The price for this rare spigot mortar includes UK delivery and no licence is required to possess this inert mortar in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 22846:78