Can Anyone Identify this bomb

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The main body is cast in iron exactly as the original pattern,the only differance from original is that i have stamped the word copy into it…don”t ask where as i can no longer remember,all my copies are so marked in some discreet place .

There are no identification marks on the original device,however i have seen a couple of mine with spurious markings added,crudely stamped broad arrows with r.f.c. and dates.Which are completely wrong for any W.W.1 air dropped munition.I cannot remember exactly when these were made but its certainly over severn years ago.
It was a real pain to get the correct type of TIN plated steel sheet of the correct gauge,modern tin plate [if you can find it]is float plated and does not have the characteristic chrystal formation on the surface,as found on dipped tinned sheet.
I found a tin box manufacturers in London who had old stocks of dipped tin sheet in several thicknesses,bought the lot.

Ah ! I noticed on the fin under the rust and paint a tin like finish on the fin, is the bomb a casting ? or did you turn each one, it must have been a heck of a lot of work to make one, let alone twenty. I am curious as to what drove you to make these ?

There are no identification marks on the original device,however i have seen a couple of mine with spurious markings added,crudely stamped broad arrows with r.f.c. and dates.Which are completely wrong for any W.W.1 air dropped munition.I cannot remember exactly when these were made but its certainly over severn years ago.
It was a real pain to get the correct type of TIN plated steel sheet of the correct gauge,modern tin plate [if you can find it]is float plated and does not have the characteristic chrystal formation on the surface,as found on dipped tinned sheet.
I found a tin box manufacturers in London who had old stocks of dipped tin sheet in several thicknesses,bought the lot.

It looks like one of mine. I must have dropped it somewhere!
(joke)
Jim

thats great, presumably the originals would have had stampings etc, did you make them long ago ?

Hi the article in question is in fact a 3 lb practice/training device,dating from the early 1920’s.The striker plate on the front set of a small charge of “puff powder” for location purposes.

An example was [is?] on display in a wall mounted case in the Bomber Command hall at Hendon.

Now the bad news ,its a copy I made twenty of them.

Very definately, i would say as inert as someone who has been shown to sell fake items on ebay ! 😀

😮 One assumes that it’s inert………. 😮

On closer look it does have all the features of a trench mortar weapon as the tube between the fins is the fitting for the spiggot launcher.

John

Thanks guys for the unqualified responses 😀

someone suggested it also resembled a French pneumatic mortar bomb no idea what that is.

definately not an ebay purchase, but that green colour does look familiar perhaps a black stripe with white edges…………mmmm theres an idea

It looks like a 20lb Cooper (WW1). The plunger on the front is normally covered on the ground by a cap.

John

Looks very reminiscent of the (I think) 20lb bombs of WW1 vintage.

Easy. You bought it off e-bay from a certain seller who described it as the Barnes-Wallis “Upkeep 2” (non bouncing) bomb for very tiny dams, as carried in the rare Hercules engined Dambuster Lancaster, and now you are trying the old “someone gave it to me” routine to cover your humiliation! 😀

Actually, I dunno. But I know a man who will!