Original Rare French WWI & WWII Viven-Bessière “VB” Rifle Fragmentation Grenade - Inert French Ordnance which measures a very displayable

which measures a very displayable 27" x 39"

so most likely this was a rifle used a lot for parade blank firing

Co with minor damage to the tubing

This is the very type map used by German bomber navigators during WWII

The pattern is characterized by purple-brown leaf shapes that are printed on both grass green and pale green fields

Original Rare French WWI & WWII Viven-Bessière “VB” Rifle Fragmentation Grenade - Inert French Ordnance which measures a very displayableOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Viven Bessires rifle grenade was an infantry weapon in use with the French Army from 1916 onwards. Also known as the "VB" grenade, it was named after its inventors, and officially referred to as the "Viven Bessires shell" in the French Army instruction manual. The grenade launcher system consists of two elements, the discharger (Launcher) and the projectile (grenade). Like all deactivated ordnance, this grenade