Artillery cases salvaged from the scrap yard.

[Skinny 1950]

I picked up several brass artillery cases from the scrap yard today and was wondering if they have any value over the price of brass. The biggest one is 4 inches in diameter and 28 1/2 inches long,I include a picture of the base of it with the markings.
The second biggest is a 3 inch anti aircraft casing MK7 dated 1955 which was apparently used in Korea from Canadian ships. (I had a thread quite a while back on the same casing).
The two smaller ones are about 3 inches in diameter (175 MM ) and 9 inches in length. One of them is marked Jul 1 1915 as well as Dusseldorf.
The other small one is marked PATRONENFABRIK KARLSRUHE MRZ 1916
I am guessing these two are German WW1 shell casings.
Here are a couple of pictures:

 

[ArtyMan]

If they are WWI German casings that sure is quite the find!

 

[f7 666]

Man those r cool I sure would like to buy something like that, congrats on the nice find

 

[Claven2]

They make great cane holders, long match holders for near the fireplace, general conversation pieces, etc. Nice find.

 

[Grizzlypeg]

Very cool. Nice find.

 

[stencollector]

Are you ever lucky to find those in the scrapyard. All I seem to find in my local scrapyard is the parts to the guns but never any brass..

 

[Colin]

becareful putting together the equibulator, that thing has a lot of force in it.

 

[Skinny 1950]

That is quite the project,it is good to see someone preserving history for future generations.
I am going to keep the big one (4 inch) but I have 4 of the 1955 Korean 3 inch anti-aircraft cases (23 inches long) and only need to keep one of the two 1915-1916 German cases. So does anyone know what these might be worth as I am willing to let 3 of the Korean and 1 of the German cases go to new homes????

 

[the wrench]

Man, I gotta start looking in different scrap yards!

 

[CanAm]

his SIN is on there, maybe you could look up the old owner

 

[luke s]

that is awesome, great find

 

[smellie]

That's a really old SIN. Mine is 4M higher and I got it in Vancouver just shortly after the damn things came out. Original issuant might not still be this side of the grass: I have been on the OAP for over 2 years myself.

Jerry cases likely will be for the 77mm fieldpiece, their equivalent to our 18-pdr. I have one from Karsruhe, didn't know they had a plant in Dusseldorf as well. Interesting!

Which case has the other bottom you showed?
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[RRCo.]

Are you ever lucky to find those in the scrapyard. All I seem to find in my local scrapyard is the parts to the guns but never any brass..

Now there's oneupmanship!

Is that from the place with all the Land Rovers?

That's a really old SIN. Mine is 4M higher and I got it in Vancouver just shortly after the damn things came out. Original issuant might not still be this side of the grass: I have been on the OAP for over 2 years myself.

Jerry cases likely will be for the 77mm fieldpiece, their equivalent to our 18-pdr. I have one from Karsruhe, didn't know they had a plant in Dusseldorf as well. Interesting!

Which case has the other bottom you showed?
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I wonder who else noticed that? Peccavi!

That must be some sort of reinforcing to the primer socket on the 105 blank? We've got an ex-ammo tech on board don't we?

 

[Dosing]

Nice find, it easy enough to get a local woodworker to turn some wood projectiles and paint them, leaves you with a nice round.