Scarce WW2 Escape Pack Saw . Major Instone Collection

Miniature saw blade . Both ends slanted . Central hole so possibly used as a compass

Developed by Christopher Clayton Hutton at M.I 9 . Would have been fitted in an escape map 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