An unexpected find was unearthed by a carpenter in Edinburgh while working on the wooden floor of an old house.
When he drilled a hole between the boards he found an intact sealed bottle for whisky with a piece of paper inside.
He said he was surprised at his luck. "I was moving the body of the radiator and drilled a hole to find the pipes," he said, explaining that it "fell" in the right place.
He immediately handed the bottle to the owner who was waiting for her children, aged 8 and 10, to open it together and read the message, the BBC reports. They tried to remove the paper with pliers, but the paper began to deteriorate, so they broke the bottle.
As it turned out, the message was 135 years old and it was signed by two craftsmen.
"James Ritchie and John Grieve fixed the floor, but they didn't drink the whisky. October 6, 1887. Anyone who finds the bottle may think our dust is blowing in the street."
[/P][BR][BR]The names of the two men are traced in the 1881 census records. They even lived a few kilometres from the house with the message.
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