Original Item: Only One Available. This is WWII manufactured T.Mi.35 mine built by the United States in order to train their troops on how to deactivate live teller mines in occupied Europe. The mine is totally inert, hollow, and marked dummy faintly in yellow paint on the underside.

This example is totally inert and unable to be filled with an explosive filler to be used as a destructive device. This is a dummy training mine and is in compliance per the current BATF standards on inert ordnance. Not Available For Export.

This is a wonderful training aid which helped in training the soldiers sent overseas to fight during WWII. It’s modeled precisely after the known German Tellermine 35. It measures roughly 12¼” in diameter and 2½” high not counting the head.  

Comes ready for further research and display!

The Teller mine (German: Tellermine) was a German-made antitank mine common in World War II. With explosives sealed inside a sheet metal casing and fitted with a pressure-actuated fuze, Teller mines had a built-in carrying handle on the side. As the name suggests (Teller is the German word for dish or plate) the mines were plate-shaped.

Containing little more than 5.5 kilograms of TNT and a fuze activation pressure of approximately 200 lb (91 kg), the Teller mine was capable of blasting the tracks off any World War II-era tank or destroying a lightly armored vehicle. Because of its rather high operating pressure, only a vehicle or heavy object passing over the Teller mine would set it off.

Of the two types of pressure-fuze available for Teller mines, the T.Mi.Z.43 fuze was notable for featuring an integral anti-handling device as standard: when the T.Mi.Z.43 fuze is inserted and the pressure plate (or screw cap) is screwed down into place, it shears a weak arming pin inside the fuze with an audible "snap". This action arms the anti-handling device. Thereafter, any attempt to disarm the mine by unscrewing the pressure plate (or screw cap) to remove the fuze will automatically release the spring-loaded firing pin inside it, triggering detonation.

Since it is impossible to determine which fuze type has been installed, no pressure plate or screw cap can ever be safely removed from a Teller mine. The T.Mi.Z.43 fuze can be fitted to the Teller mine 35, 42 and 43 series.

To hinder demining, all Teller mines featured two additional fuze wells (located on the side and underneath) to enable anti-handling devices to be attached, typically some form of pull-fuze.