Code: 16371
Brass tubular lighter ( slight crack to body) . Removable Blue painted top to expose the lighter . Pull off base to fill the lighter . The base with a hidden small 12 mm Escape compass that can be removed .Together with a passport size photo of Major Instone
Developed by Christopher Clayton Hutton at M.I 9 . Would have been fitted in an escape kit or sent out in prisoner parcels
Part of this Historically important collection of escape items that belonging to Major .G. Instone . Military Medal winner for escape and evasion from Dunkirk in 1940 through France and Spain being held in prison there and then back to the U.K . He then saw service with the Intelligence Corps and M.I 9









