Original French WWI Rare Early Inert Foug Asparagus Grenade Cylindrical Grenade with Wood Top Plug & Metal Cap Field Gear Blade Style: Hira Sankaku Yari

Blade Style: Hira Sankaku Yari (平三角槍)

- Invasion of Normandy

though it does look like it was polished post manufacture to remove staining and oxidation

and the feed pawl inside the Maynard tape primer still moves correctly

The following day the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 115th Infantry moved into positions of the 36th Infantry of the 3rd Armored Division

Original French WWI Rare Early Inert Foug Asparagus Grenade Cylindrical Grenade with Wood Top Plug & Metal Cap Field Gear Blade Style: Hira Sankaku YariOriginal Item. Only One Available. As soon as April 1915, the military manufacture of Foug, in Meurthe et Moselle near Toul, began to produce simple grenades models, including a copy of the famous German stick grenade, and two 'asparagus' grenades (a long then a shorter) in pre fragmented steel equipped with a rudimentary wooden igniting percussion plug. Unloaded or dummy grenades, artillery shell casings, and similar devices, which are cut or drilled