A Voice From the Past

Last week, I showed you some of the little items that Mrs.5000 and I found inside the Castle5000 walls during our tediously ongoing bedroom remodel. I neglected, though, to mention something we found literally ~on~ a wall. More specifically, it was something carved into a door moulding that was revealed only after we sanded off several layers of paint. Seven letters can been clearly seen, etched deep in the wood by a very sharp knife or blade!



Now, it's a little hard to see in the photograph, so I've performed a subtle image enhancement to help you read it better.


Isn't it always so interesting to encounter such messages, little missives sent forwards into our own time from unknown people of the past!? In this case, too, there is the question of what it might mean. Our working theory is that someone named Killfux must have lived in the house before us. Perhaps that was the last name of the charming children we saw in last week's post.

It was difficult to decide whether to preserve this little piece of Castle5000 heritage, but in the end we decided to paint over it along with the rest of the mouldings. We hope you will not think us historically insensitive.