Out yard sale browsing and found a terrible looking lamp made from this shell

rci2950

BANNED
CGN frequent flyer
EE REVOKED
EE Expired
Rating - 98.1%
52   1   0
I already stripped out the lamp parts because it looked really bad, like a child did it. It was purely done with old junk from around the house. Including an old wall light switch and the cord from a radio. Even the screws they used were mismatched and from some old garbage thing. You can see the holes where they mounted the switch and ran the old cord from a radio out through it. They couldn't even do that straight or even. So Now i am not sure what it is from. It is made of steel. Not brass. it is from an English speaking country possibly American. Most of the writing on the base is obscured from sliding it around on cement. It is painted on writing nothing is stamped in. So this might indicate it is not that old. I plan on body filling the holes the previous owner made in it and trying to paint match to the rest of the outside of the shell. Any idea what this beast was fired from? A ship maybe? Either way once it is repaired it will be placed in my reloading room as an ornament.

26995169243_e660e63a05_h.jpg
 
Maybe,you could make a dummy warhead to fit and look like a live round. Lamps made like that have a bad habit of electrocuting the owner,eventually. Cool find,good luck.
It looks like a round from a 5" deck gun.

yea i have no intention of using it as a lamp. I looked at the 5 inch deck gun shells on google image and it doesn't look like they have any bottleneck to them, They are pretty much straight walled. From what i have found so far it might be a 105...
 
I am betting 105mm tank, possibly the cartridge case from the 105mm Smoke WP M416 which was manufactured in the United States. It was used by Canada and the United States. The 105mm tank ammunition uses an electric primer and in your top photo I believe the MA-101-2 is the lot number and just below that is the partial M416 model number.

The Gun M68 is the gun the ammunition was used it. The M68 being the U.S. version of the British Royal Ordnance L7 gun.
 
Back
Top Bottom