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Berlin Wall, Cold War, Dutsch Pickhard, FGS Koeln, Flaschenpost, Franz Pickhard, German, message in a bottle, Uebersee Combo, West Germany, wilhelmshaven
The Discovery of an Old Message in a Bottle From a West German Sailor
My brother Evan is no stranger to finding extremely cool, very old messages in bottles. Just for example, there was the 20 year old German message in a bottle he found in 2015 and we solved in 2017. And, like me, he’s also found one or two of the 1959 Guinness messages in bottles.Well, he just opened another humdinger! He found this bottled note on a deserted Caribbean island after it had been at sea for decades… My family guessed many things about this bottle as it waited to be opened, but we never would have guessed it would turn out to be from a West German sailor from 10 years before the fall of the Berlin Wall… Here’s how it all unfolded.
