<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">hi Bruce,<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">It looks like this could be Armenian handwriting (which I once learned but have totally forgotten now).</div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><ul><li><a href="http://forum.hyeclub.com/showthread.php/17563-Armenian-Script-Handwriting" target="_blank">http://forum.hyeclub.com/showthread.php/17563-Armenian-Script-Handwriting</a><br></li><li><a href="http://i.imgur.com/b0DZmhw.jpg" target="_blank">http://i.imgur.com/b0DZmhw.jpg</a><br></li><li><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;display:inline"><a href="http://www.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpics.livejournal.com%2Faadroma%2Fpic%2F0010k2xy&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Faadroma.livejournal.com%2F763625.html&h=387&w=810&tbnid=V3MRwZZam2dKjM%3A&docid=3heCeYRLIxn6PM&ei=w07QVc2MAsz4avOAv_gH&tbm=isch&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=767&page=1&start=0&ndsp=19&ved=0CDwQrQMwCWoVChMIjfq9rpytxwIVTLwaCh1zwA9_" target="_blank">​another link​</a></div><br></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_alphabet" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_alphabet</a><br></li></ul></span><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Was the bottle found on the shores of Australia?  how mysterious!<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">best</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Alex</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">

<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">_________</div><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"><span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(69,129,142)">Alex François<br>
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<a href="http://alex.francois.free.fr" target="_blank">Personal homepage</a><br></span></font></span></span></span>__________________</div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-08-16 6:32 GMT+02:00 Bruce Birch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruce.birch@anu.edu.au" target="_blank">bruce.birch@anu.edu.au</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Can anyone help translate this message found in a bottle (see attachment)?<div><br></div><div><div style="margin:0px"><img alt="unknown.jpg" height="1363" width="1022" src="cid:F6403307-F70B-4445-A5D1-567FF8AD0599"></div></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><br><div>
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