When Sara Rivers Cofield bought a 19th-century dress at an antique store in Maine, she found more than she bargained for: a secret pocket with a coded note. It took internet sleuths years to solve the mystery.
An 19th century bustle dress bought in Searsport a decade ago made national news this week, after a researcher de-coded an old telegraph message found inside of it.
Rivers Cofield had no idea that the vintage dress she bought in December 2013 would unravel a mystery a decade later. Inside a secret pocket tucked under the bustle were two crumpled sheets of paper with lists of seemingly random words and places.
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When Sara Rivers Cofield bought a 19th-century dress at an antique store in Maine, she found more than she bargained for: a secret pocket with a coded note. It took internet sleuths years to solve the mystery.