I have found some various items in the butt trap of some military firearms but nothing of significant value and nothing as potentially historically significant as this!

Those names may be people in some military group, troop, class or whatever. If you can read and record all of the names, maybe you can search and find some relevance. Looks like fun! Thanks for sharing.

 

My SSA No1 Mk3 had been in my hands a few months before I noticed a rattling noise. Turns out I had missed the oiler in the butt stock. Bonus but nothing like yours.

 

In a M14 surplus stock just the name and rank of the Marine who had it along with the departed 14's serial #

 

The bill looks Japanese-the Chrystanthemum on top. Occupation currency ?

 

I think the bills were called "short snorters".

 

I find the coin the most interesting. US Forces landed at Leyte on 20 October 1944. The coin has "United States of America" on it with a date of 1944, so could not have been there pre-Japanese invasion. Maybe some kind of Liberation money? John

 

It is interesting to ponder the circumstances. I did a search on the net and there are some examples of the same coin out there.

 

An amazing relic with many legible names.
(Jim E. Trembley, Robt. Barrow, Larry Epstein, John L. Howard, Nicholas Cajoiratis, John J. Miller, George Nabin, Paul P. Foster, J. Watt, Robert Cobie, Thomas Painter, and Boyd Rath, are some of my wild guesses. There are a bunch more. Bright light and a magnifying glass would help).

Seems to say - JOB 47 Filippines. The bill appears to be Japanese and the coin must have been struck after liberation.

Super Neat Mystery that is worth solving.

 

If you can better resolve the names & spellings (or approximations), I can see about looking some of them up on Ancestry.com to see if they have any associated military service records.

For instance: there is a Seaman First Class 'James E. Trembley' listed in the 'Marine Barracks, Naval Ammunition Depot, Hastings NE' for the 1st to 31 July 1944 Muster Roll roster.

Money Matters: The Short Snorter Saga

The vestige of a peculiar tradition, short snorters served as both wartime souvenir and membership certificate to a special club.

www.nationalww2museum.org

Famous Short Snorters | History Detectives | PBS

Forums - American Numismatic Association

www.money.org

 

Very cool find, very cool.

 

That's awesome! I have found stuff in the buttstock a few times, but nothing like that!

 

Very neat find! All I ever found was a cleaning kit in my M1917 Eddystone.

 

That is a really neat find. I haven’t had such luck with any of my milsurps though.

 

Partial cleaning kits,oil bottles, rifles dope ,that's all.Nice find!

 

The bill looks like a wartime issue 50 sen note from Japan. See example below. This is not occupation currency from the Philippines (they used Japanese-issued "pesos"), but rather money from Japan itself. Neat find!

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note208853.html

 

Very cool fine. I imagine the names on the note or members of his unit or friends. Here’s some information on the coin.

Five Centavos 1944-1945 Wartime Alloy Coin Details - USA/Philippines Type Set (Expanded Edition)

coins.www.collectors-society.com

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From the link you sent, "When American forces liberated the Philippines in 1944 - 1945 they brought with them the Wartime Alloy Victory Coins produced in the continental United States. " That's really cool.

 

We used to leave photos in ours after boot camp. (1982 era).

 

Nice find, found 4 pennies in a P14 rifle. Always a treat to find unexpected goodies/surprise. Attaching link.
P14 with volley sights and EY marking | Gunboards Forums

 

Found a pass to Paris in 1945 in pocket of an Ike jacket from a thrift store years ago.

 

A dirty toothbrush with the handle cut down and an oily rag in the butt of a Philippine return Springfield M1 Garand.
I found a fragment of a Hungarian newspaper from the 1950s in an M95 Steyr ammo pouch.

edit: I found a piece of an M&M wrapper and a tattered 10 mark note from 1986 in the pocket of a German flecktarn field jacket I bought.

 

I forgot that I once found two west German coins in the pocket of my dad's field jacket. After he passed, I checked the pocket but no coins were there. No idea where they went but I really wish I knew.

 

I found a second aperture for the Lyman 48 peep sight on my sporterized remington 1917 in a plastic bag in the butt.

 

I’ve found oilers….. full of guess what?

Nasty black old sludge oil.

This only retains to 1903/M1 oilers.

 

Found the original Government sale paper from the 1920s in the butt of a 1917 Eddystone.

 

Now that’s super cool.

 

Found a black garter belt in a No. 4 Mk 1.

 

Well did it fit? They say the average male was smaller back then so I would presume that correlates to thigh diameter not just height and weight.

 

Just dead bugs.

 

I found a BZO card in a demilled M16A2 parts kit that I bought a few years ago.