45 semi-automatic pistol (estimated value, $25,000 to $30,000), sextant ($8,000 to $12,000), navigator's master clock and radio headset. I'm not going to be around much longer,' said Van Kirk, a retired Du Pont chemical engineer who lives in Novato, explaining why he's selling these objects.
The estimated value of the log alone is $400,000 to $500,000. That historic document, written in pencil on yellowing paper, is one of several dozen Enola Gay artifacts and ephemera owned by Van Kirk and Morris Jeppson, the weapon testing officer onboard, that will be auctioned off June 11 at Butterfields in San Francisco.
