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British, Anglo Boer War Era, EOC 47mm Hotchkiss Round, Dated Dec 1897, Inert

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*British, Anglo Boer War Era, EOC 47mm Hotchkiss Round, Dated Dec 1897, Inert*

Total height 23.8cm
Shell base 6cm diameter, (no fuse), shell height 13.1cm
13.4cm

This is a WW1  Hotchkiss Round. The pointed steel projectile has a standard Hotchkiss brass driving band design of the period and is threaded in the base for a base fuse. Later driving bands were narrower and were made of copper.

This was made from 1886 under licence by the Elswick Ordnance Company by Elswick Ordnance Company, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Elswick Ordnance was a major arms developer before and during World War I. The ordnance and ammunition it manufactured for the British Government were stamped EOC, while guns made for export were usually marked “W.G. Armstrong”.

This is dated 12/97.

*Condition*
Good used condition

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