INERT DEACTIVATED. This is an original WW1 German Practice Stick Grenade. This grenade has a heavy pressed steel head with an integral belt loop and is held to the original wooden shaft by 4 round top screws and 4 x stab crimps. The body retains much of its original red paint and measures 70mm diameter by 110mm long. The steel belt hook is held on by two rivets. The body has 5 x 10mm diameter holes in the top of the body and three x 10 mm diameter holes round the circumference. The heavy weight wooden throwing shaft has a threaded steel collar fuse cap with an eight sided end cap is held on by 2 rivets. There is traces of black stencilling to the handle’ 5 ½ Sekunde’. See German Grenades Of The Great War by Patrice Delahomme. The price includes UK delivery and no licence is required to possess this grenade in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. O 1544
£475.00