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WWI Poison Bottle Mask Breaker Pyridine Maskenbrecher German Chemical Warfare

$ 15.83

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Conflict: WW I (1914-18)
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Theme: Militaria
  • Condition: Dug condition
  • Region of Origin: Germany
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
  • Original/Reproduction: Original

    Description

    WWI Empty German Poison Bottles of Pyridine.
    Height – 13 inches. Weight - 23 oz. Excavated in the village of Derno (Ukraine) Eastern Front (Summer-Autumn Campaign of 1916 year) Example of the use - watch the historical photo. Pyridine was used as a chemical weapon on the Eastern and Western fronts during the trench warfare of First World War. It belongs to the class of chemicals classified as vomiting agents. Other such agents are diphenylcyanoarsine (DC) and diphenylaminechlorarsine (DM, Adamsite). The Germans called it Maskenbrecher (Mask Breaker)
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