A painter from Tasmania (State of Australia) discovered a closed glass bottle that had been hidden for 122 years in a hole in the wall of the Cape Bruny headlight. Inside there was a two -page letter. The information is from the British newspaper “The Guardian”.
Annita Waghorn, Tasmania’s Historical Heritage and Wildlife Service Manager, told the British newspaper that the discovery occurred when painter Brian Burford performed routine maintenance on the structure.
“He was so excited that he called me and said he had found a message in a bottle,” said Waghorn. The letter was not just a simple ticket, but a envelope containing two hand -written pages by detailing the lighthouse in 1903. A ladder, floor, flashlight and lens were added to the headlight listed as a historical heritage almost 70 years after building the original structure in 1838.
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To get to the message, they needed the help of Museum experts and Tasmania art gallery, who carefully extracted the delicate aged role. “The bottle was sealed with a bitumen -covered cork, which made it difficult to open,” Cobus Van Breda told the Museum to ABC.
Once the message was extracted, the team still needed several days to decipher its content, according to the Guardian. Museum employees now plan to put the letter on display so that the audience can see it.
