Bought this shell from an antique store. Would like to know the history behind it, as in what it was used for? (The casing is about 16 and 1/2 inches in length)
A WW1 Trench Art brass shell casing inscribed The Great War 1914-1919 23cm Height also stamped 1917
WW1 British 6 Pounder 1917 Dated Empty Brass Shell Case .
Trench Art in the JDC Archives
Ammunition - Helmen
German WW1 Rhinemetall Shell Case 1917
1917 75 Mm Ww1 Mortar Shell Casing
Heavenly Metal: How Trench Art Keeps the Memories of Soldiers and Their Service Alive
Large calibre markings (The Western Front Museum)
World War One Trench Art
WW1 British Brass Artillery Shell Casing Vase Dated 1918 at 1stDibs
Brass shell casing - 1917 - General Ammunition Discussion - International Ammunition Association Web Forum
Brass shell casing - 1917 - General Ammunition Discussion - International Ammunition Association Web Forum
Were there really piles of spent artillery shells littered across the battlefields of WW1? If so, what'd they do with them all after the Armistice? - Quora
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