Original WWI Italian S.I.P.E. Hand Grenade Mounted on a Period Austrian Display Base with “Watch on the Tonale 1916” Commemorative Plaque Category_Rear Sight Assembly Bitterly cold

Bitterly cold

were intentionally destroyed for obvious reasons

(printed signature) and signed by Secretary of War Edwin M

Leather scabbard is in good complete condition

Although it was originally a two-battalion glider-borne infantry regiment

Original WWI Italian S.I.P.E. Hand Grenade Mounted on a Period Austrian Display Base with “Watch on the Tonale 1916” Commemorative Plaque Category_Rear Sight Assembly Bitterly coldOriginal Item: Only One Available. Very Rare original WWI Italian S. I. P. E. Fragmentation Hand Grenade taken as a souvenir by an Austro Hungarian Soldier from the legendary battlefields of the Italian Alps. The grenade is mounted on a display base with a copper plaque applied which translates to Watch on the Tonale 1916. The Passo Tonale was the scene of extended combat during the White War that transpired in the Italian Alps between the Italians