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Shrapnel shell, 18 cm Shrapnel Shell in a Wooden Box, A half-length pointed sawn-shaped 18 cm grenade cartets in a wooden box. The grenade is 49.2 cm long and has a caliber of 176 mm. The grenade has two rings of pressed-in cams for a drawn barrel with three pulling fields, a ballistic cap filled with wood, a tube hole, a fire-conducting pipe to the explosive charge in the bottom and a cardboard charge of lead balls of 24 mm diameter on top of the explosive charge by an iron ring., W.G. Armstrong & Co, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1868, iron (metal), bronze (metal), brass (alloy), wood (plant material), shell: h 8.8 cm × w 49.2 cm × d 17.6 cm box: h 19.8 cm × w 53.5 cm × d 27 cm