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![[Flag of Pirates]](../images/p/pir_eeng.gif)
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by Antonio Martins
Erroneous attribution
![[Blackbeard's flag]](../images/p/pir_bbea.gif)
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by António Martins, 29 October 1998
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
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