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Probably lost to a carrier pigeon in 1910, a german military message reappeared in 2020 in Alsace, in eastern France, where he was found by chance, said the curator of the museum to which he has been entrusted on Sunday.
The message was protected in “a small aluminum capsule” and was found in September by a couple walking in a field of Ingersheim.
“When the permanent (from the museum) called me, I said: ‘Fuck!’ Such a find is very rare“, He declared enthusiastically to AFP Dominique Jardy, the curator of the Linge d’Orbey Memorial Museum, who confesses that “in forty years”, “he (has) never seen anything like this.”
This museum is dedicated to the battle between the French and the Germans in 1915 on the Alsatian side of the Vosges Mountains.
The couple delivered the capsule and its message to the Linge museum, located near where it was discovered, Jardy explained.
The handwritten message, very well preserved, is written in German on a “kind of tracing paper” in a script close to Gothic and difficult to understand, says Jardy.
He called “a German friend” to decipher it: he was sent by an officer of a Prussian infantry regiment, then stationed north of Ingersheim, to a superior of the same regiment. The text mentions German maneuvers between Bischwihr and Ingersheim, at a time when Alsace was German.
Four copies of the message were to be sent via four pigeons, one of which apparently lost found message very quickly in 2020, Estimates the curator.
However, there are doubts about the year, since the last figure is not very legible. Jardy think it’s 1910, although verifications will be made. Meanwhile, the message will be exhibited at the Linge museum.
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