tin can bomb / 1916 Rising
Home-made bomb, of the type used in the 1916 period. Bourneville chocolate tin (marked on bottom) filled with iron shrapnel fragments, which would also have co0ntained a black gunpowder. Top burst due to mis-firing.;
1916 Rising
Object Number:
HE:EWT.463
Institution:
NMI
Date:
1916
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Place of production:
Ireland
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