Art. Projectile. ID help

[Grizzly Adams]

Picked this up at a yard sale yesterday for 2 bucks. Judging by the markings it's for an 18 pounder Quick firing gun. Since it's been fired and is intact, I'm thinking it's a Shrapnel shell, thin walled and doesn't fit the profile of the HE version. My wire brush is on the soft side, so I couldn't get the worst of the rust off, but here goes, what I can read. Curious about it's age and any other info.

OL is 9 5/8 in. Dia. is 3.728 in., allowing there is some corrosion.

Markings OF 18 P [thinking the O is actually a Q ]

Vll

ES

OA

l

313

Grizz

 

[smellie]

Looks like a fired 18-pounder Shrapnel shell which has been fired, didn't go bang and then was disarmed and unloaded.

Standard in both World Wars for British Commonwealth field artillery.

Nice find!!!

 

[Garand]

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[Juster]

That is nice. I wonder if the Schrapnel shell normally survived it's own detonation, like a flying shotgun barrel. If so, there must have been a lot of the things lying around.

 

[scott585]

try evaporust, it will take the rust off without damaging any markings on the round