Original Italian WWI Benaglia Rifle Grenade with Rod - Inert Replica Non-Firing Machine Guns and rubber

and rubber

This translates to "Reminder of my service"

made circa 1840 for the U

It has rank insignia for a Fähnrich zur See (Ensign at Sea) Officer Candidate

Original Italian WWI Benaglia Rifle Grenade with Rod - Inert Replica Non-Firing Machine Guns and rubberOriginal Item. Only One Available. This is a rare example of the WWI Italian Benaglia rifle grenade, actually a rod grenade. The rod grenade was patented by an Englishman named Frederick Marten Hale, an employee of the Cotton Powder Company at Faversham in Kent, in November 1909. Unfortunately, in practice, the rod grenade turned out to be an impractical weapon of dubious accuracy that caused stress on the rifle barrel, and which soon necessitated