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of which were made to order by Flint Jack. A photographic 
likeness of this individual, taken when he was at Salisbury, in 
1863, is shown in Case D 2. Much has been written about 
Flint Jack by Mr. Monkman, Mr. Wyatt, Mr. Llewellynn Jewitt, 
and others. 
Mr. Evans has mentioned a distinction to be observed between 
counterfeits and forgeries : — " Counterfeits, contrafacta, being 
made to imitate genuine originals; iorgeries, fabricata, though 
professing to be genuine, not being of necessity imitations, but 
frequently embodying new conceptions." A glance at the 
specimens in Cases D 2 and 3 will suffice to. convince the 
visitor that he is looking at forgeries, not at counterfeits, for there 
is scarcely a single example which is a good imitation of a 
genuine original. In particular, the absence of surface- 
chipping" upon the arrow-heads will be noticed. See speci- 
mens upon Tablets 18 to 23, 27 to 29, and 33 and 34, Case D 2. 
Many "amateur" forgers can make equally good, if not 
better, flint hatchets, arrow-heads, and scrapers than Flint Jack 
and his professional brethren. There were heroes before 
Agamemnon, and forgers of flint implements before Flint Jack. 
About the year 1855, ''there was a manufactory of stone 
hammer-heads, ancient British urns, and flint weapons of all 
descriptions on the eastern coast of Yorkshire, principally 
carried on by one William Smith, alias Skin and Grief, or Snake 
Willy. Not only arrow-heads and celts of all sizes, but rings, 
knives, saws, and even fish-hooks of flint were produced, some 
of which have been engraved as genuine in local archaeological 
publications. Since then the manufacture has spread south- 
wards, and many are made in Suff"olk. They have also been 
produced in Kent, and recently the most accomplished of the 
forgers, Edward Simpson, alias Flint Jack,* has made more than 
one public exhibition of his skill in flint-working in London. 
The fabrication of stone antiquities is carried on, but on a 
smaller scale, in the north of Ireland. There is usually a 
greater difl"erence in the convexity of the two faces of the forged 
flint arrow-head than in the genuine examples ; and in nearly 
all the forgeries a dulness of surface characteristic of recent 
fracture. 
*' On the Continent forgery has been practised in connection 
with the lake-dwellings of Switzerland, both with regard to 
* In Yorkshire, Flint Jack was at one time better known by the name of 
Bones." 
