From the bequest of Canon Vergara — lot 44

A sheet with sixty-four meaningless letters and a pasteboard card with sixteen windows. Laid on top it shows sixteen letters; turned a quarter, sixteen different ones.

Four quarter turns and not one square is repeated or missed. Read top to bottom and left to right in each position.

Position of the grille

What comes out

— nothing yet —

Where is the key?

Turn the grille and note what shows in each quarter.
A. Mestres cabinet · lot 44 · grille and sheet
THE CANON GRILLE
00:000 of 4 quarters
From the same bequest as the disc and the chapel

THE CANON GRILLE

Vergara did not trust locks. Lot 44 holds a sheet with eight rows of eight letters and a punched card of pasteboard. Neither of them says anything on its own: the card is only holes and the sheet is only noise. Fitted together and turned through their four positions, the sixty-four letters come out in order.

Lot 44 deciphered