Capture of Finnish gold reserves in "Ester Thordén"

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Re: Capture of Finnish gold reserves in "Ester Thordén"

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Post by John T » 21 Aug 2015, 23:46

Bumped into the loading document of Ester from 30 July 1940.

The pic cut out the weight column, my camera at a fixed height and the document are A3 + size.
It is 1375 kg from Bank of Sweden to Federal Reserve
and 396 kg from Boliden AB (private gold mining company)to The New York Thrust co ( Now part of JPMorgan Chase)
EsterThordenGold2.jpg
And while googling, I also found this interesting tidbit on Finnish postal routes to the world in 1940:
http://scc-online.org/old/Finnish%20Phi ... 8_2000.pdf

The last link also mention another Swedish gold transport a week earlier.


Cheers
/John T.

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