Original WWI Italian S.I.P.E. Hand Grenade Mounted on a Period Austrian Display Base with “Watch on the Tonale 1916” Commemorative Plaque Brunswick Parts the 513th began conducting frontal

the 513th began conducting frontal assaults on the heavily entrenched German positions as British gliders started to land practically on top of them

Complete with its original all steel ramrod this really is a truly excellent example of this very unusual weapon that plagued European travelers who ventured into that region of the Ottoman Empire

both to penetrate thinner enemy side armor

with the original top tie present

Original WWI Italian S.I.P.E. Hand Grenade Mounted on a Period Austrian Display Base with “Watch on the Tonale 1916” Commemorative Plaque Brunswick Parts the 513th began conducting frontalOriginal Item: Only One Available. Very Rare original WWI Italian S. I. P. E. Fragmentation Hand Grenade taken as a souvenir by an Austro Hungarian Soldier from the legendary battlefields of the Italian Alps. The grenade is mounted on a display base with a copper plaque applied which translates to Watch on the Tonale 1916. The Passo Tonale was the scene of extended combat during the White War that transpired in the Italian Alps between the Italians