INERT DEACTIVATED. Scarce, Unfired, Strippable, Alloy, German WW2, 1940 Dated AZ 23Zn Impact Fuze for German High Explosive Projectiles. - O 2307 INERT DEACTIVATED. Scarce, Unfired, Strippable, Alloy, German WW2, 1940 Dated AZ 23Zn Impact Fuze for German High Explosive Projectiles. - O 2307 Various Other Ammunition

INERT DEACTIVATED. This is a scarce, strippable, German unfired, early WW2, 1940 dated alloy AZ 23 nose impact fuze. The fuze is stamped on the side AZ 23Zn cvg (Vereinigte Deutsche Metallwerke AG, Werk Hedderheim, Frankfurt-Hedderheim) 31a 40 (1940 date) and it has a delay switch on its side to give a delay of up to 0.15 seconds as well as no delay. The fuze top unscrews revealing the safety mechanism inside. The fuze is used with German high explosive shells from 75mm upwards and included many of the tank high explosive projectiles. The fuzes originally came in a partitioned wooden transit box containing 25 fuzes so would not have had a separate transit container. See German Artillery of World War Two by Hogg. The price includes UK delivery and no licence is required to possess this inert fuse in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. O 2307