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When an old bottle got caught in German fisherman, Konrad Fischer’s net, he assumed it to be just a beer bottle but is actually a world record.
The bottle containing a completed Danish postcard dates back to 1913 and is the world’s oldest message in a bottle.
“It was almost unbelievable,” Erdmann told the German news agency DPA.
A German news source says the Danish note, written by a man named Richard Platz, had two German stamps on it and a message telling the finder to send to his Berlin address. Von Neuhoff added that most of the ink on the postcard was illegible with time and dampness.
After the museum displays the fascinating discovery until May 1, experts will try deciphering the rest of the message.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, this drift bottle will bypass the original record holder that was found in the United Kingdom after spending nearly 98 years at sea.
Agencies/Canadajournal
