Note from E. A. Blampied found in historic castle.Photo:Jersey Heritage
Jersey Heritage
A peculiar note discovered in a bottle inside a historic castle might sound like a mission meant for a beloved fictional spy. But, in the case of a certain decades-old piece of paper uncovered in Elizabeth Castle in Jersey, that fictional character is very much already involved in this mystery.
Earlier this week,Jersey Heritage revealedthat it discovered a “mysterious” note featuring the nameJames Bondin the 16th century castle off the coast of France.
Sharing the news to Instagram, the organization revealed that the paper was spotted on the first floor of the castle’s Officers’ Quarters, when “a fireplace was unblocked” amid a restoration project.
Hidden in the structure was a glass bottle, which included both the note and an additional three pages of the a weeklyReveillenewspaper from the ’60s, per theBBC.
The note reads the following: “007 JAMES BOND / 26th Feb 1966. / P.S. SECRET AGENT. / DON’T TELL ANYBODY."
Elizabeth Castle in Jersey.Jersey Heritage
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According toArt UK, the artist was known for his works in oil, water color and wash, and was a “noted etcher, with a fine, swirling line,” who has work featured in multiple British and foreign art collections.
Note from E. A. Blampied discovered in fireplace.Jersey Heritage
Alongside the note itself were pages 15 to 18 of the local newspaper from Feb. 23, 1966.
Note from E. A. Blampied.Jersey Heritage
“He was 79-years-old at that point in time, and he passed away in the August of that year so we thought it was possibly unlikely that he was shoving bottles into fireplaces at Elizabeth Castle,” Doolan added.
First floor fireplace in Elizabeth Castle, where the “mysterious” James Bond note was discovered.Jersey Heritage
“All the others had been blocked between probably 1923 and 1946 as we found cigarette packets from the period and German ammunition,” he said.
“Unfortunately, the glass was damaged but the note would have been a message in a bottle,” Jersey Heritage shared to X, formerly Twitter.
source: people.com
