Researchers believe that Erdmann’s grandfather, Richard Platz, threw the bottle into the sea when he was on a hike in 1913. He was 20 years old at the time. A lot of the message on the postcard was impossible to read, but the address in Berlin on the front of the card was legible. Platz asked the person who found it to send the postcard to his home address. “He also included two stamps from that time that were also in the bottle, so the finder would not have to pay for postage,” Erdmann said. “But he did not think it would take 101 years.” She said she was moved by the arrival of the message, but she did not know her grandfather because he died, at the age of 54, six years before she was born.
What did Richard Platz request from the person who finds the bottle?
To use the stamps in the bottle to send the letter to Platz To buy two stamps and sent the letter to Platz To give the bottle to Angela after his death To rescue him from the island he was stranded on