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100-Year-Old message in a bottle pulled out of Baltic Sea

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09-04-2014 | 09:05

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100-Year-Old message in a bottle pulled out of Baltic Sea

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20-year-old Richard Platz tossed a note on a postcard into the sea after putting it in a brown beer bottle during a nature hike along Germany's Baltic Coast in 1913.

The note was pulled out of the sea by a fisherman last month not far from where Platz first pitched it.

It may be the world's oldest message in a bottle.

Platz was identified as the author of the note, and researchers then located 62-year-old Angela Erdmann, his granddaughter.

Erdmann says she never met Platz, who was her mother's father. He died in 1946 at age 54.

Erdmann visited the museum last week and was able to hold the bottle, saying that it was a very touching moment," although much of the ink on the postcard had been rendered illegible with time and dampness.

The discovery will be on display at the museum until 1 May, after which experts will set to work trying to decipher the rest of the message on the postcard.

Guinness World Records previously identified the oldest message in a bottle as dating back to 1914.

It spent nearly 98 years at sea before being fished from the water.

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