Roughly, M24 stick grenade with magnetic sheet metal construction head and a roughly, lathed, subtly contoured, natural soft wood handle with a a magnetic sheet metal fitting to both the top and bottom ends. The stick is very nicely age-darkened wood, in excellent condition, with a maker’s ordnance code and the date “RR 512 1940” branded into the wooden shoulder just below the warhead. The top end of the handle has a screw threaded sheet metal fitting secured by four, small impressed crimps. The top fitting was designed to screw into the bottom of the sheet metal grenade head. The bottom of the wooden handle has a removable, screw threaded, sheet metal cap with a corresponding, screw threaded, friction fit, sheet metal receiver. The bottom cap and the screw threaded receiver both show light corrosion and the cap is seized in place. The top handle fitting retains about 80% of its original field-grey paint. The hollowed out wooden handle would have originally housed the detonator and pull cord with a porcelain pull bead and they may or may not still be in place. The sheet metal head retains about 85% of its original field-grey paint and is well marked with a black stencil script. A solid, representative example of the M24 model grenade -visually quite impressive.
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