Codes Contained in 1880s Dress Are Finally Cracked
Sara Rivers Cofield thought she was buying a pretty but unexceptional dress. In fact, she would soon discover the 1880s-era silk bustle dress, bought at a Maine antiques mall...
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Sara Rivers Cofield thought she was buying a pretty but unexceptional dress. In fact, she would soon discover the 1880s-era silk bustle dress, bought at a Maine antiques mall...
A dress from the 1880s had a hidden pocket and an unbreakable code. The silk dress cryptogram was recently broken, but some mysteries remain.
For nearly a decade, sleuths had tried to decode a cryptic note discovered in the silk bustle dress. An analyst finally cracked the case.
‘Silk Dress Cryptogram’ was listed on blog as one of world’s top unsolved codes from history
A woman hid this secret code in her silk dress in 1888. At last, codebreakers have finally solved it.