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JOLLY ROGER
pirate ship model
Our Jolly Roger model was initially
commissioned by an important person involved in the
movie Hook directed by Steven Spielberg in
1991. We were
given tons of
information about the full-sized ship that was housed in
Sony Picture Studio's stage 27. Please note that there're
some people who copied our model but did it badly. For
example, the sails of the Jolly Roger in the movie were
not battered, the figure head was massive, the stairs
were curved beautifully... This is a clear sample of "me
too" cheap imitation by unskilled, unknowledgeable
entities in third world countries. In an extreme case
they even bought our model and use its parts to make
molds to cast plastic parts which then painted. Worse,
they try to fool naive buyers and price those models
close to our prices, implicitly stating that their
models are authentic!
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The term Jolly Roger goes back to at least Charles
Johnson's A General History of the Pyrates, published in
Britain nearly 300 years ago.
Johnson specifically cites two pirates as having named
their flag "Jolly Roger": Bartholomew Roberts in June,
1721 and Francis Spriggs in December 1723. While Spriggs
and Roberts used the same name for their flags, their
flag designs were quite different, suggesting that
already "Jolly Roger" was a generic term for black
pirate flags rather than a name for any single specific
design.
Richard Hawkins, who was captured by pirates in 1724,
reported that the pirates had a black flag bearing the
figure of a skeleton stabbing a heart with a spear,
which they named "Jolly Roger".
During the Elizabethan era Roger was a slang term for
beggars and vagrants who "pretended scholarship. "Sea
beggars had been a popular name for Dutch privateers
since the 16th century.
Another theory states that Jolly Roger is an English
corruption of Ali Raja, supposedly a 17th-century Tamil
pirate. Yet another theory is that it was taken from a
nickname for the devil, Old Roger. The jolly appellation
may be derived from the apparent grin of a skull.
This Jolly Roger pirate ship model was constructed based
on numeral rare photos supplied by a gentleman who
was a serious collector of pirate ships. (That's why you
see the other makers' models are so wrong on many
counts.) The scratch-built
primarily wood model features is 34" long x 30" tall x 12"
wide
$4,590 Shipping
and insurance in the contiguous US included. Other
places: $300 flat rate.
Model is built per commission only. We require only a
small deposit to start the process (not full amount, not
even half) $500  The
remaining balance won't be due until the model is
completed,
in several
months.
Click on the blue wordings to check out our beautiful
Black Pearl
pirate ship,
Flying
Dutchman
pirate ship, and the
Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge pirate ship model.
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