Brass Artillery French Shell Casing 1918
$140
The shell casing markings "75 DE C 1844 L 18 P" indicate it is a French 75mm field gun casing, from 1918, with other codes identifying the batch and manufacturers of components.
Marking Breakdown
75 DE C: This is an abbreviation for "75 de campagne" (75mm field gun or Canon de 75 modèle 1897), which was the ubiquitous French quick-firing artillery piece used extensively in World War I.
This shell casing was found in a field in France in the early 1920’s
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