Due to the lack of steel, this glass fragmented grenade was made in the last months of ww2. It had a BZE39 or BZ40 fitted on a threaded tin cover which bayonet-fitted the glass collar. Two variations are known so far with differences in the fragments (cuts inwards or outwards). Grenades have been recovered carrying steel fragments added to the charge. I have no idea what the detonator tube looked like.
Height 79mm/110mm , Diameter 58mm. BZ39 or 40, detonator No.8
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