Original British Napoleonic - Crimean War Era Cannon Grease Pail with Chained Cover Category_MG 34 Mounts These were expected to break

These were expected to break through a thin screen of anti-tank guns

A genuine British 8lb cannon ball in wonderful condition still half encrusted with sea bottom sediment and a removable top portion very possibly from action in 1782

43 represents the year of manufacture 1943 and 415 is the batch or serial number

was himself shot down and killed on 10th May

as the 28th Infantry Division (this lineage giving it the divisional nickname of the Eisernes Kreuz Schlesische Division

Original British Napoleonic - Crimean War Era Cannon Grease Pail with Chained Cover Category_MG 34 Mounts These were expected to breakOriginal item: Only One Available. This is a Classic British Muzzle Loaded Cannon accessory, an iron GREASE PAIL, measuring 7" tall by 9 1 2" wide including the chained on lid cover. This is all made of thick IRON with a fixed heavy chain link suspension chain on which is attached and trapped the iron lid so it cannot get lost. These Grease Pails were intended to hang from a hook found on the front of a Field Carriage, where it was easily accessible