A brass and steel fuze tip and ogive section from a German 150mm shrapnel shell, recovered from the battlefields of Ypres, Belgium, dating to the First Battle of Ypres (October–November 1914).
The object features a brass “Dopp. Z. 92” dual-purpose (time and percussion) fuze mounted atop a truncated section of the projectile’s steel ogive (nose cone). Affixed to the side is a polished brass commemorative plate, engraved with contextual information about the shell’s use during the early months of the First World War, when German forces attempted to advance toward the English Channel.
This piece likely served as a souvenir or trench art relic, a common practice among Allied soldiers and collectors during and after the war.