The Tjipetir Mystery
Mail Online
"Why ARE 100-year-old rubber blocks washing up on shores all over Britain and northern Europe?
- Identical tablets have washed up in Newquay, Northumberland, Channel Islands, Brittany, Holland and Germany
- They are stamped with the word ‘Tjipetir’ - a populated part of West Java in Indonesia
- One wild theory is that they could have come from the wreck of Titanic ...
Mystery surrounds the origin of cargo thought to be 100-years-old that keeps being washed up around the shores of Britain and northern Europe.
The most recent discovery was four rubber squares stamped with the word ‘Tjipetir’ - a populated part of West Java in Indonesia - which were found in Newquay, Cornwall.
Tjipetir is the name of an early 20th century rubber plantation in Indonesia and the tablets are made from the sap of the gutta-percha tree, a tropical tree native to Asia and northern Australia... " [To be continued: Mail Online]
Le Télégramme
"Les plaques de gomme gravées "Tjipetir", dont plusieurs ont été retrouvées sur des plages bretonnes et dont la provenance reste mystérieuse, sont décidément voyageuses : deux d'entre elles sont cette fois été retrouvées à une semaine d'intervalle en Espagne, près de La Corogne..." [La suite est à lire ici : Le Télégramme]
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