a member from a German medal forum asked me for help. Maybe someone can help, please? I am not too much into mortars as you may know.
Thank you very much in advance.
Chris
Here is his message:
Hello together, i need yout help, please. My name is Alex, i´m from Bavaria / Germany.
Chris told me that you could possibly identify the following model that i bought yesterday at a flea market.
Maybe it is just "mortar-style", may be it has a real model. It is definitely old, a real good handwork.
I usually collect medals and metal sculptures of planes and tanks of WW2 an post-war. But this cannon is unique, I´ve never seen anything comparable before. The part has a retraction spring, similar to Playmobil toy guns. This then fits again to a mining projector model. Thus, no cartridge or the like can be used. What is definitely missing is the locking mechanism for the return spring.
I checked many Austro-Hungarian and German mortars, both from a few books and from plenty of pictures I took inside museums, I was unable to find a match. Sorry.
