hand-grenade / Rebel, 1916

Grenade, carried by insurgent forces, 1916. Home made hand grenade. Cylinder of iron, 3.5" by 1.25" diameter, roughly scored in segments for bursting on outside, sealed in at both ends: at one by piece of iron cast or hammered in flush with the outside of the cylinder, at the other by an iron terminal in the shape of a door knob, 1.6" in diameter. Either end pierced in centre by hole 1/5" in diameter. Overall length 4.6".;