A woman bought a vintage dress at an antique store. It had a secret pocket

A woman bought a vintage dress at an antique store. It had a secret pocket

1/17/2025

notes

what a fun story and a reminder of the good parts of the internet.

link

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/15/us/antique-dress-maine-encrypted-message-cec/index.html

summary

Sara Rivers Cofield bought a 19th century dress and discovered a coded message in a secret pocket. The code was cracked years later by Wayne Chan, who identified it as a 19th-century weather report using a telegraphic code.

tags

coded message ꞏ weather report ꞏ antique dress ꞏ 19th century ꞏ mystery ꞏ codebreaking