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It may not belong here, but it was also seen in Terra X.
The le Buse cryptogram.
It is probably the oldest known document of the cryptogram.
But even here Nick has already pulled out all the stops.
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Here the old original:

Sadly, that was just a modern mockup. Nobody knows what happened to the original cryptogram (though chances are it's sitting forgotten in a box in a Mauritian drawer).

There was also a second variant of the cryptogram which some enterprising soul had fabricated (probably in the 1930s). They embellished the original with some romantic-looking pirate drawings and some extra lines of ciphertext (more or less entirely taken from Poe). But that's a story for another day. :-)