The Legend of Blackbeard’s Silver-Plated Skull
The pirate flag of Captain Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard. The flag shows a skeleton spearing a heart and toasting death. Image credit: Fred the Oyster via Wikipedia The skull, now lined in silver, eventually showed up again at a pub in Virginia so that it could be used as a goblet. By Dolly Stolze / 04.02.2018[…]