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BRITISH' POTTERY MADE BY 'FLINT JACK/ 



T. SHEPPARD, M.SC. 



Many years ago I was greatly puzzled by the extraordinary 

 shape and decoration of a somewhat barrel-shaped vase 



Fig. 1. — Vase in the Hull Museum. 



figured by Thomas Wright in his ' Essays on Archaeological 

 Subjects ' (1861, Vol. I., page 29), and I made frequent 

 endeavours to trace the vessel, but without success. Some 

 years later, when visiting the late Miss Cape at Bridlington, 

 she showed me a very fine collection of Hint implements of 

 extraordinary design and remarkable wt)rkmanship, which 

 had been luade by ' Flint Jack,' who was a familiar visitor to 

 the house in which her father (the author of a History of 



Naturalist 



