iron hand grenade

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Originally Posted by fernando

Hi Eftihis,
An extremely curious item, for sure.
But you shouldn't have shaken it; we never know how 'nervous' these things are, even after some centuries .

Quite right, if it had blown, you might have gotten a nasty paper-cut!
Never knew they were made from paper as well! Even some of the modern equivelants were made from odd materials. Some of the WWII Japanese examples are ceramic, as are some of their land mines.