Original French WWII Inert Brandt Mle 1935 60mm Mortar Round with Original Paint & Fuze Original Items

Original Item. Only One Available. This is a very scarce French WWII Brandt Mle 60mm mortar round with its original paint and fuze. This mortar round was likely brought back by an American G.I. after the war. Like all deactivated ordnance, this mortar round is Not Available for Export.

The mortar round measures 9¼” long. The fuze assembly has a red stripe painted which likely indicates a high explosive round. The fuze is still unscrewable and functions well. It is stamped clearly

21/28 B MLE 1935
ATS_3_38

The body of the mortar is painted yellow above the grooves and is stamped below the grooves, but the stamping has faded heavily. It possibly reads

AER-11-39
AXE-75-38

One of the fins is clearly stamped C.C.A-1938-53-39. The mortar is in overall great condition and will fit well into any WWII Ordnance collection. Ready for further research and display.

The Brandt Mle 1935 60-mm mortar (French: Mortier de 60 mm Mle 1935) was a company-level indirect-fire weapon of the French army during the Second World War. Designed by Edgar Brandt, it was copied by other countries, such as the United States and China, as well as purchased and built by Romania. Modified in 1944, the mortar continued to be used by France after the war until at least the 1960s.

The Brandt Mle 1935 was a simple and effective weapon, consisting of a smoothbore metal tube fixed to a base plate (to absorb recoil), with a lightweight bipod mount. The team of the Mle 1935 was made of five men: a leader, a firer, an artificer and two suppliers. When a mortar bomb was dropped into the tube, an impact-sensitive primer in the base of the bomb would make contact with a firing pin at the base of the tube, and detonate, igniting a gunpowder charge, which would propel the bomb out of the tube, and towards the target.