So on an island which was lived on by European men, used by European men,(such as the now known timber cutters), lived on by a coast guard station, the idea an empty jar of skin protectant, or skin healer, used by a man is not a far fetched hypothesis.
Your desperate defense doesn't hold p. The only European men who lived on the island, as far as I know, were Gallagher, the Coasties, and for a a couple months, Laxton. We have an inventory of Gallagher's personal effects. No skin protectorates there. We have numerous photos of bare-chested Coasties. No concern about sunburn there. That leaves Laxton who is known to have visited the site once. What's this about about European timber cutters? I must have missed that.
There is not an ounce of desperation in pointing out sunburn relief cream on a tropical island is far from extraordinary.
Especially one with a coast guard station on it. A Coast guard station equals a LOT OF PEOPLE WITH SUNBURN POTENTIAL.
I find it amusing for the head of Tighar to quickly skim the US military living there as "the coasties" and give it some short Shrift almost like that is an irrelevant time and matter. Yet I have desperation?
For you as well as I know Ric, this jar could have rode in aboard a US transport as well as the Electra. It also has several other
potential sources which are in this thread and I will not rehash.
As far as Timber cutters, well you must have amnesia or are a bit tired, because you have talked at length in multiple threads on this forum about Timber cutters being on the island before Earhart, when discussing a potential source for the found sextant box, shoes.
They could have also dropped an empty sunburn jar obviously. As could any other visitor, whether Brits raising markers of possession, nailing notices on the trees, or fisherman out for an adventure(both also documented on these pages in the past).
The island has been used,and during the 1920-40's offers numerous possibilities for the simple loss of a sunburn jar.
That it "may" be part of the puzzle I concede. I also am rational enough to weigh the evidence and concede these jars perhaps have no connection to Earhart at all, and that is as plain as the sun which caused the infliction to begin with.