Original Item: Only One Available. This is an original Austro-Hungarian WWI Zylindergranate, or Cylinder Grenade, manufactured in Switzerland for Austro-Hungarian service and now completely inert and BATF compliant.

As with all deactivated ordnance, this item is NOT AVAILABLE FOR EXPORT.

The grenade remains substantially complete but shows heavy oxidation across the body from age and long storage. The original pull ring is no longer present.

The exterior retains traces of the original protective lacquer coating, although much of it has flaked away, allowing corrosion to develop across the exposed metal surfaces.

During the opening months of WWI, many armies relied heavily on improvised hand grenades assembled from available materials. The Austro-Hungarian Army was no exception, and early grenade designs could be relatively crude.

By 1915, more standardized patterns were entering service. Austria-Hungary imported German Stielhandgranaten in significant numbers while also contracting manufacturers in neutral Switzerland to produce other grenade types, including the Zylindergranate.

The Zylindergranate represented an improvement over earlier improvised and primitive designs such as the LAKOS type, incorporating a more practical body form, handle, and fuze arrangement.

This example shows exactly the kind of heavy age and corrosion often encountered on surviving early war grenades. The pull ring is missing, but the grenade otherwise retains a strong and unmistakable Central Powers appearance.

The exact recovery history is unknown. The corrosion and condition could be consistent with long-term buried or wet storage, but without provenance we cannot confirm any specific glacier cache origin.

A scarce and interesting example of Austro-Hungarian WWI grenade development, and a desirable inert ordnance piece for a collection focused on Central Powers trench warfare.

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