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Pirates: Blackbeard

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[Flag of Pirates] image by Antonio Martins

Erroneous attribution
[Blackbeard's flag] image by António Martins, 29 October 1998


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Description of the flag

A horned skeleton with an hourglass in the right hand and a spear in the left pointed to a heart with three blots.

Blackbeard is known to have flown the "deaths head"; Johnson's History of the Pirates shows his ship flying the skull and crossbones only. All other flags attributed to Blackbeard are fictional.
Mike Maggelet, 16 October 2005