"Engraving That Keeps No Secret Since 1756"
Woodcut dated 1756 that keeps no secrets St Petrus and St Paulus were engraved in a medallion by Charles Neel, then the woodcut was watercolored and gilded to be offered by Josse Van Neste to Josse Isabella Varenberg who celebrated her first communion in the chapel of the parish house, inside the walls of the city of Oudenaerde, …. In 1756 This exceptional story, more than 268 years old, is handwritten on the back with beautiful bistre calligraphy. This paper testimony, which has managed to cross this long period just to bear witness to the customs of our ancestors, is disturbing. 
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