Jump to content

File:"Jolly Roger" flag 1912 C. F.png

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (732 × 1,018 pixels, file size: 86 KB, MIME type: image/png)

Summary

Description
English: A flag sketched by the anonymous C. F.: the accompanying text is reproduced below:

In "The Book of Buried Treasure" (Rd. Paine, 1911) is to be found the following:- "A Flag was hoisted, called 'Old Roger,' "described as having "in the middle of it an anatomy (skeleton) with an hourglass in one hand, and a dart in the heart with three drops of blood proceeding from it in the other." This description is from a quotation from an old account of John Quelch, a pirate executed at Boston in 1704. There is a photographic reproduction of a water colour drawing of this pattern of flag which is in the Bibliothcque nationale (Paris) in " Armee et Marine," 1900, of which the enclosed sketch is a copy. Whether this flag is black or yellow does not appear, it might be either, both would come out almost equally dark in a photograph.

Below the flag is a pendant on which are three skulls and cross-bones similar to the 17th Lancers' Badge. It is described below as a "Pavilion de pirate," but the inscription on the picture itself is too indistinct to be decipherable. The pendant seems to be stiffened with light battens
Date
Source C.F.. "The "Jolly Roger"". The Mariner's Mirror 2 (7): 220. DOI:10.1080/00253359.1912.10654616.
Author "C. F."
Other versions

Licensing

Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

image/png

2fde831e972486297e87ac09764acb5ad7bd6a15

88,565 byte

1,018 pixel

732 pixel

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current20:34, 4 January 2019Thumbnail for version as of 20:34, 4 January 2019732 × 1,018 (86 KB)AnimalpartyUser created page with UploadWizard

The following 2 pages use this file:

Metadata