Fisherman's bid to sell world's oldest message in a bottle on eBay thwarted

By Eryk Bagshaw
Updated July 31 2014 - 2:18pm, first published 2:05pm

A German fisherman who found the world’s oldest message in a bottle, floating in the Baltic Sea, has been thwarted in his attempt to sell it on eBay.

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