Researchers believe Erdmann’s grandfather, Richard Platz, threw the bottle in the sea while on a hike with a nature appreciation group in 1913. He was 20 years old at the time. Much of the postcard was indecipherable, although the address in Berlin on the front of the card was legible, as was the author’s polite request that the note be sent by the finder to his home address. “He also included two stamps from that time that were also in the bottle, so the finder would not incur a cost,” Erdmann said. “But he did not think it would take 101 years.” She said she was moved by the arrival of the message, although she had not known 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