Original French WWI Rare Early Inert Foug Asparagus Grenade Cylindrical Grenade with Wood Top Plug & Metal Cap Field Gear though it does look like

though it does look like it was polished post manufacture to remove staining and oxidation

The controversy centers on whether he and his Director of War Plans

The needles should be so placed as to have their points even (in the same vertical line)

with some wood portions splitting and joints having let go

Original French WWI Rare Early Inert Foug Asparagus Grenade Cylindrical Grenade with Wood Top Plug & Metal Cap Field Gear though it does look likeOriginal Item. Only One Available. As soon as April 1915, the military manufacture of Foug, in Meurthe et Moselle near Toul, began to produce simple grenades models, including a copy of the famous German stick grenade, and two 'asparagus' grenades (a long then a shorter) in pre fragmented steel equipped with a rudimentary wooden igniting percussion plug. Unloaded or dummy grenades, artillery shell casings, and similar devices, which are cut or drilled