Jack The Ripper in Southport!!

[admin tim]

http://www.southportforums.com/forums/printthread.php?t=19486

[Mike Covell]

Wow thats an intresting find!!

A couple of the posters have gotten their facts jumbled up, as i believe the GSG was written in chalk not blood, but hey!

Wouldn't it be great to be the owner of all that stuff, especially the key, i wonder what was hidden the dresser as they used to have little compartments hidden away.

Lets wait and see:thumbsupbud:

[Stephen Leece]

The Time Stamps on that article all say February 2003- has anyone heard of this before? or are the Time Stamps wrong?

[Chris G.]

The bag looks too modern to have been owned by James Maybrick. That's a piece of hokum, and I think a worse con in some ways than the Diary. Whomever is responsible should be ashamed of themselves. If it's real, what's happened to it in the last five years? Please! :rolleyes:

[Paul Butler]

Hi All.

The fact that we know the Maybrick's furniture was sold in 1889 at auction rather puts paid to this as a non starter, though I can't see why the bag doesn't look old enough!

It's clearly an old bag by the lettering style, and probably belonged to someone with the surname Jack.

I wonder who made up this load of old tosh! I'd never heard this particular one before, though similar tales have been going about for years.

regards to all.

Paul

[Mike Covell]

A couple of things spring to mind,

The bag although looking old, has a rather shiny red leather drawstring which looks recent.

One of the pictures shows the bag and the key resting on tarmac, surely if it is genuine this could damage the items?:photo:

The book in the drawer does not look like the diary.

The comments made ie "The gsg was written in blood" are also questionable.

The letters J.M.Jack obviously refer to Mr J M Jack!!:spit:


Whatever next J.M Jack Unicycle anyone??

[Chris G.]

A couple of things spring to mind,

The bag although looking old, has a rather shiny red leather drawstring which looks recent.

One of the pictures shows the bag and the key resting on tarmac, surely if it is genuine this could damage the items?:photo:

The book in the drawer does not look like the diary.

The comments made ie "The gsg was written in blood" are also questionable.

The letters J.M.Jack obviously refer to Mr J M Jack!!:spit:


Whatever next J.M Jack Unicycle anyone??

Doesn't the stitching appear new? Let alone the leather or suede itself? It looks to me like a hippie bag on which someone has stamped the name. Jimmy "Marijuana" Jack. Just call me "Digger." :rolleyes:

Chris

[Chris G.]

"Also pictured below is the key belonging to the sideboard shown in the photograph above, that James Maybrick used during his life."

And pigs can fly. . . . :flypig:

[Stephen Leece]

Are there any other Maybrick artifacts of dubious origin doing the rounds? (no jokes about watches and diaries- I've heard them all before)

[Mike Covell]

Another great quote on the website comes from one of the posters and mentions that the GSG was written in Blood:doh:

That one gave me real fits, anyway I have a Maybrick TV and DVD combi, any takers??

:smash:

[Paul Butler]

I think its a military issue pouch from the end of the nineteenth century. Obviously nothing to do with James.

Paul