Mysterious 100-year-old, "Do not open till 2012" parcel in Norway set to be unwrapped

[wfgodot]

A newspaper from August 1914 - the month the Great War started.

 

[Lera213]

need another translator!!!!!!!!!!

 

[wfgodot]

A list of the contents will be compiled and will be available later today.

 

[SieSie]

"Some committee work for the memorial" was just translated...

"A picture from the memorial"....

Asking the museum directors to give them a "resume" of the contents.

A banner from the King...

 

[Lera213]

like I said, a big hoopla to generate monies for either the museum or auction of items.

 

[Cazzie]

It's open! Documents and letters...

ETA for those not watching: They're wearing white gloves, going through the many letters and documents. Just found a newspaper, letters from the United States...

Oooo, goodies.

Am I wrong to hope for love letters (in a sentimental way)?

 

[wfgodot]

Perhaps not one single "amazing thing," yet all of the contents are amazing things - things a man thought to package and to hand down to the future citizens of his town. Just doing that involved an act of faith, for with the Great War just past and another soon on the horizon, it was an act of faith to imagine that there would be a future, one hundred years on.

 

[BeginnersLuck]

This is so exciting! I can't believe nobody peeked over the years.

If I could "wish" what I wanted it to be it would be the answer to world peace.

 

[Cazzie]

Perhaps not one single "amazing thing," yet all of the contents are amazing things - things a man thought to package and to hand down to the future citizens of his town. Just doing that involves a leap of faith, for with the Great War just past and another soon on the horizon, it was an act of faith to imagine that there would be a future, one hundred years on.

I hear ya.

Something that any one of us could do now...despite jaded thoughts.

Deep thinking.

 

[sherlockh]

A newspaper from August 1914 - the month the Great War started.

Oops, wrap it up again and come back in 2 years

 

[wfgodot]

Oops, wrap it up again and come back in 2 years

There were several packages contained within the larger package. (Seemed a little odd to me, too, but that's what the museum lady said about that paper - when she said it, I was kind of like, WTH?) So perhaps the first item(s) went in in 1912 and the contents were added to, etc. Looking for the list they said they'd make of just what else was in there but haven't found one yet. And, if I misheard the museum lady, edit my account above to read, " with a world war looming on the horizon in just two short years...." lol)

Sunday Independent's account:

Sealed for 99 years and 363 days - so what was inside the mysterious parcel left to a small town in Norway?

(The Independent seems a little disppointed by it all, too.)