Downed Navy Pilot WWII Gold Barter Pack-Atlantic, Standard GI for Atlantic Theatre Options

[gold_tutor]

Incredible piece of WWII Naval History--Atlantic theatre (read Europe missions).

Each Naval Pilot was issued one of these heavy rubber waterproof packs prior to flying assigned missions over enemy territory in the Atlantic theatre.

The Pacific Rim rubber pack did not contain near as much gold as the Atlantic pack did.

In this particular one were two watches with the following writing on the faces of each:

MILUS
Instant Date

21 Jewels
Milushock
M. 40 A1

Swiss Made

The gold coins from left to right:
British Gold Sovereign
British Gold ½ Sovereign
unknown european fractional gold
gold Swiss franc,
gold French rooster.

The round pendant inscribed with a “P” and has a bail for wearing on a chain is 24K pure

The four heavy gold links are also 24K pure and weigh within 1/100 of a gram of gold each.
Soft enough to twist apart and separate the links they could be used as individual bribes if needed.

The 3 large rings at the bottom are 9ct gold and very large for fitting over a man’s knuckles.

Extremely hard to cut open, the contents were not tampered with in these, which now resides in a retired navy pilot’s personal collection.

Each pilot was instructed to turn these in upon safe return back to base after a mission. This and some others were found in a small horde in a garage sale in Michigan. Also accompanying these
eKits were the government destruction procedure papers for melting and recovering the gold.

These were never intended to ever see the light of day nor fall into the hands of civilians.

An example of the incredible stuff available to citified prospectors like I teach others how to be....

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[jasper]

Hi I was reading you post about ww2 gold barter kit??I live in Portland,OR, I just bought a 9 piece gold barter kit from an estate sale in Oregon,I bought this set from Mr Lou Meyers? Mr Meyers had passed befor he could tell me about this kit?? The kit is over 60 grams of gold? Please tell me what I have?&what it is werth?

[Crusty]

Hi I was reading you post about ww2 gold barter kit??I live in Portland,OR, I just bought a 9 piece gold barter kit from an estate sale in Oregon,I bought this set from Mr Lou Meyers? Mr Meyers had passed befor he could tell me about this kit?? The kit is over 60 grams of gold? Please tell me what I have?&what it is werth?

The OP stated they kept the gold, so the kit you bought contains no gold.

[jasper]

The OP stated they kept the gold, so the kit you bought contains no gold.

No this kit has 9 gold coins with a total weight of 62.202 grams?I though you may know the value of this kit?Have you ever seen a kit with 9 coins??Iam trying to find out the history of this kit,If you can please let me know anything about this kit,I would be most greatfull. I have been trying to find one that is simaler to mine,every thing that I see has only 3 or 4 gold coins never 9.on the back of my kit it has a stamp #of 814,did your kit have that same stamp??

[Crusty]

No this kit has 9 gold coins with a total weight of 62.202 grams?I though you may know the value of this kit?Have you ever seen a kit with 9 coins??Iam trying to find out the history of this kit,If you can please let me know anything about this kit,I would be most greatfull. I have been trying to find one that is simaler to mine,every thing that I see has only 3 or 4 gold coins never 9.on the back of my kit it has a stamp #of 814,did your kit have that same stamp??

The original post is almost 6 years old; hopefully the OP is still around and can answer your questions. Sounds like a very interesting find!