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[Chumlee Bumsnag]

I couldn't find a place to post with these so here goes. I found these today while cruising the second hand shops with the wife. I don't know anything about these, but the little round one looks like the one's I used back in the 70's.
Three of them have blue handles and appear to be practice grenades. The fourth one has an olive drab handle and a different fuse number.
The pins are obviously not the real thing and there's no spring/ striker dealy under the handle. The original paint seems to have been sand-basted off.
They're nice paper-weights though.
Anyone know more about these?

 

[sf]

US WW2 Mk II pineapple, M67, M26, Mk II. Nice find. They used to be very common & affordable at milsurp stores but no more due to US export & shipping restriction. The M18 smoke practice grenade is the ultra rare kind. Grab it if you ever see one for sale.

 

[Chumlee Bumsnag]

Cool. Thanks!

 

[raindog]

I think these are roughly cast replicas of the above mentioned models, and are available very inexpensively in the US. I also doubt that they have been sandblasted, as the replicas often are in the raw - no paint. The spent fuzes are from real practice grenades and are readily available from many sources in the US as well.
There was a time, not long ago, when you could purchase these dummy grenades on Ebay for less than $10 each.

Still, they are a nice collection for display.

 

[Chumlee Bumsnag]

That makes sense cause they don't look exactly quite right compared to pics of the real thing.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Practice grenades generally have a hole in the bottom.

Grizz

 

[Shrapnel]

Yeah, they are all practice grenades. They must all have holes cast in the bottom... Real "pineapple" grenades are cast with a solid bottom and the casting quality is better. Some very early Mk2 "pineapple" have a bottom with a lead screw plug... The fuse bodies on WW2 Mk2 are not made of aluminium like your training fuses but of some kind of lead alloy... The spoons are also different on real ones.

The real M26 "egg" and M67 "baseball" grenades have sheet metal bodies crimped together at the midsection. The real practice version of the M67 is called the M69 and it has a steel body welded at the midsection... Your versions are decorator models, probably cast in Korea in the 80s and using spent training fuses...

 

[myenfield]

I bought 2 case of fake grenades (one case of pineapple and one case of baseball style) when I was in high school many years ago. They served 2 purposes for me. To begin with, I carried them around in the back of my 1979 V8 Mercury Capri as weight to keep the tires on the ground for a winter. Then I sold them out of my locker at school one at a time to help fund my gun collection. Good times, good times...