A stone axe head by Flint Jack, with paper label inscribed 'Made by Flint Jack Decr 17. 1868.' 13cm long. Flint Jack, the so called Prince of Counterfeiters (aka Fossil Willy; Bones; Shirtless; Cockney Bill; the Old Antiquarian; Snake Billy; Skin & Grief) real name Edward Simpson (or Edward Smith) possibly of Sleights, Whitby (c:1812-c:1875) was an infamous Victorian forger of stone tools, pottery, coins, stone celts, manuscripts, Roman armour, jet seals, necklaces, fossils and glass objects.
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A Samoa club, Polynesia, wood with incised decoration and remains of lime, 52.5cm long, a Fiji club, wood with an ovoid head, inscribed 'Suma, Fiji', 54cm long, a wood and stone head adze with bark cloth and fibre banding, 36.5cm high, and a Fiji ula, 34.5cm long. (4) Provenance Dr James Spillius, London.
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