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Message:: [QUOTE="opoe, post: 277394, member: 5459"]When my belgian uncle passed earlier this year, the great task of sorting through his very many belongings fell upon me and and a couple of aunts. He and my late aunt had no children. Initially I suspected him of robbing a church in France or something, so many religious items everywhere, later I heard the story of an antiques dealer stranding in front of my uncle's (who happened to be an car mechanic amongst other things) house. His truck full of items from a probably abandoned french church, the antiques guy paid him in antiques for his help. This apparently happened over thirty years ago. I decided to bring this small chest home, it looks and feels old and very catholic...it could have been used as a tabernacle in a minor provincial church I think. The back is quite crude though the front is really elaborate. Do not mind the woodworm holes, I think they are dead. What kind of wood could have been used, it's kind of pale.[ATTACH=full]88311[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]88312[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]88313[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]88313[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]88314[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]88315[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]88316[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]