Wading knee-deep into the details of why pirate flags probably didn't look exactly how we picture them today.


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Sources:
Partly based on "Under the Black Flag" by David Cordingly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolly_R...
https://web.archive.org/web/200801150...
https://prints.rmg.co.uk/products/the...
http://images.rmg.co.uk/?service=asse...
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...
https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collect...
https://archive.org/details/blackwall...


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