Richie and Gary (and anyone else joining this thread): The prevalance of WWII stuff has sort of contaminated the search for 1937-era stuff. By the start of the war, things like sextant boxes and aircraft octant boxes had become so standardized that we take the box shapes for granted. The few years before the war were not quite so standardized, and there is room for doubt about the identification of any particular pre-war box and what was stored in it. That's part of the puzzle that TIGHAR has been struggling with. If the flight had occured in 1941, then the box would be easy to identify. If the flight had occured in 1931, then the different shape boxes of that era would also have been easy to identify. The "Gallagher" box seems likely to belong to the early 1930's (or earlier) era marine vintage. This seems a bit too early for a box that might have been on the Earhart flight, but doesn't entirely rule it out. I believe we can help TIGHAR clarify what happened at the end of the Earhart flight with good analysis of what is known and what is likely. We know that aircraft octants of WWII vintage could not have been on the flight, for example. Pictures of WWII boxes are nice, and help identify what later era boxes looked like, but don't much help us learn what happened to Fred and Amelia.