All of the bottles contained a postcard that listed instructions in English, German and Dutch to return the note to the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth, England, in exchange for a shilling.

Guy Baker communications director at the Marine Biological Association said it caused quite a stir when they received the postcard from the Winklers.

According to the MBA, Bidder released approximately 1,020 bottles between 1904 and 1906 as part of an experiment to understand currents.

Baker stated a lot of the bottles have been recovered many years in the past by fishermen, and that they’re now asking the Guinness Ebook of Data to acknowledge the message in a bottle because the oldest ever discovered.

A one-shilling reward is all set to be awarded to the German couple who spotted this bottle.

The current record-holder spent 99 years and 43 days at sea.

After all the excitement, the couple says they can’t wait to visit Amrum Island again.

“Most of the bottles were found within a relatively short time”.

With that information, he was able to prove that the deep see current in the North Sea flowed east to west, and he was able to show that plaice – a kind of flat fish – swim against that current.

Inside the bottle, there was a visible message: “Break the bottle”.

109 years later, Marianne Winkler found one of them as she walked along the beach in Germany.

The bottle was thrown into the sea 108 years ago by British scientists, Telegraph.co.uk reported. Majority were found within months of being released at sea. “We definitely weren’t anticipating to obtain any extra of the postcards”.

The note said whoever found the bottle would be given one shilling.

Record or no, the association was true to its word, sending Winkler an old shilling it found on eBay.