The gable stone depicting a wild pig being threatened by a gun and a dog was found in the cellar of Wolfstraat 14. It served as the step of the cellar stairs.
According to another source it was used as a paving stone in the backyard. However, it is not known whether the stone had been placed in the facade of that building before. It is possible, because in the 17th and 18th centuries a house in Wolfstraat was called "the (golden) pig".
In the 1950s the recovered pig was relocated from the Bonnefanten museum depository at Markt 38 to the side wall of the cafe, which at the time was called "au jambon".
The caption was already badly damaged and almost illegible at the time, but when the facade was renovated in 2018, the gable stone was also taken care of. Using the remaining letters and a bit of good will, the inscription was reconstructed. The totally illegible and missing letters were not only coloured red: IN THE GOLDEN PIG, but also made smaller to fit the damaged bottom frame.
The incomplete DATE starts with 17.
The separate year stones 16 61, the year of the foundation of the house, higher up in the facade have nothing to do with the gable stone.
The funny thing is that there is also such a pig in Maaseik, Bosstraat 46. They do look very much alike.
Was the same example card used for both?
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