Original Austro-Hungarian WWI Early Cylinder Type Schwergranate Heavy Hand Fragmentation Grenade - Inert Napoleonic It has sliding brass lens

It has sliding brass lens covers to both front and rear

while the rest of the markings are unfortunately faded

this passage has become so common that few initiation ceremonies are actually held

to October 1864

12 04 (Mills production)

Original Austro-Hungarian WWI Early Cylinder Type Schwergranate Heavy Hand Fragmentation Grenade - Inert Napoleonic It has sliding brass lensOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice totally inert BATF complaint Austrian Schwergranate or Schwerhandgranate, which literally translates to "heavy hand granade". As the name implies it is quite heavy and large, measuring about 4 3 4 inches tall and 2 1 2 inches across. These were made in many different patterns during the war, and this is a very early pattern with a cylinder shaped body. There is an internal 1 2" thick fragmentation