INERT DEACTIVATED. WW1 Era, 1910 Dated, British 13 Pounder (75x313R), Fired & Recovered Shrapnel Round Fitted With A No. 80 Mk II Time And Percussion Fuze. - O 2126 INERT DEACTIVATED. WW1 Era, 1910 Dated, British 13 Pounder (75x313R), Fired & Recovered Shrapnel Round Fitted With A No. 80 Mk II Time And Percussion Fuze. - O 2126 Other Ammunition

INERT DEACTIVATED. The 13 pounder field gun was the standard horse drawn field gun of the Royal Horse Artillery during WW1 and was pulled by a team of 6 horses. The gun entered service in 1904, replacing the obsolete 15 pounder breach loading and the 12 pounder Erhardt guns as an experience of the Boer war. This is an excellent British 13 pounder fired and recovered shrapnel round which has excellent stampings on the projectile and fuze. The projectile is nicely stamped round its circumference Q.F. 13Pr I (Mark I) FS (Forged Steel) 17.1.10 (17th January 1910). The projectile and is fitted with an alloy number 80 mark II fuze. The fuse is stamped 80II * R crowfoot L (Royal Laboratories) 203 struck out 12/07 (December 1907). The cartridge case is headstamped 13Pr II 12/16 (December 1916) 159 BSC and a G in a circle (Bethlehem Steel Company). The brass screw in percussion primer is stamped No II / II 11/17 (November 1917) KN (Kings Norton). Hogg British Artillery Weapons and Ammunition 1914 – 1914, pages 58 – 67. The price includes U.K. delivery and no licence is required to possess inert rounds in the UK if retained as a part of a collection or display. O 2126