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If you have of find any clues or notice interesting things please comment. I thought several eyes would be better than just a pair of tired ones.
Some progress have been done. Check comments below for clues.
- T H E S T O R Y
Last year an entire life's friend of my grandfather passed away. He knew him since his thirties, he is 82 years old give or take, and his friend was at least 10 years older. He was very intellectual and fond of classical music, specially Wagner. He had not much of a family himself, only a distant nephew, so when he died, my family pretty much received most of his belongings. I got a handful of old records, and several photography related books, very old most of them, and mainly in german and french. He was a photographer, btw. So this didn't come as a surprise. My grandfather is a photographer as well, and that's where they knew each other from. What came as a surprise some months ago was his nephew phoning my mother, with a real surprise: she had found an old document on a forgotten suit on a dusty cellar, and a photo. The document was from my country, and has his photo as a very young man, but another name. In the photo is him in his twenties dressed on a white tuxedo on a kind of party, and you can see people in the back dressed like in the 20's fashion, clearly before inmigration. It is now when everybody realizes they had never knew neiter his parents nor anything about his life prior his arrival to Argentina. He had no sons, no wife, nobody. - T H E B O O K
Yesterday I remembered the box with the various books, with titles like Traité Général de Photographie en Noir et en Couleurs, or Kompendium der Praktischen Photographie, etc, and started to read easy through some of them, mostly looking at the diagrams, because of my lack of language knowledge. Then I noticed one particular book that had no title in the old cover, only an engraved figure, it looks like a parchment, a torch, and some sort of olive branch. Inside it looked really old, and was all printed on a strange alphabet I couldn't recognize. Almost no punctuation, little bleed, strange. On the last page there was a ink drawing, also noticeably aged, of a hooded figure with the head of a bird, holding what seems to be a mirror, or what's even more freaky, a polaroid. The bird is standing on a stone path laid across grassy fields, that rises and enters a kind of hole or gate which leads to a place filled with spheres of different sizes. There are also two strange trees that don't seem to be of any known type. There is a sky in the back with curly clouds. In the bottom right there is a signature. Mine. - T H E M I S T E R Y
It is my signature no doubt about it. The drawing even looks like one of mine. The freaky thing is that I didn't do it, and it seems to be like at least 90 years old., who knows if more. Later on I found out a small inscription, apparently made with a thin sharp object, on the back of the book. It says QRPEUD FRVDV in common latin characters. Hit me if I know what I'm talking about. This is the weirdest thing that has happened to me ever, no doubt. I'm tearing my brains thying to figure out what this image means.
If you have of find any clues or notice interesting things please comment. I thought several eyes would be better than just a pair of tired ones.
Some progress have been done. Check comments below for clues.
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I recommend that if possible, you give us an even larger image (we're talking 1500 pixels wide or more). It'll just make it easier to investigate, I'm highly intrigued by this. 
Hehe.
Hehe.