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Read more »Tattooing in South Africa
John Thompson who was born in Bedale, North Yorkshire, England in 1871 – relocated to Galveston in the USA.
Where he changed his name to J.T. Clark and married Bertha Ritchie the tattooed lady – who went by the show name Princess...
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Read more »America's first tattooed showman
James O’Connell – the tattooed Irishman was America’s first tattooed showman working firstly at the Lion Circus
O’Connell first became known after the story of his life was published in 1836. Telling of the six years he...
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Read more »Paul Rogers moves to Jacksonville, Florida
Franklin Paul Rogers (1905-1990) moved to Jacksonville in Florida of the USA in the 1960’s – Where he tattooed with Bill Williamson in a studio on 409 Main Street, FL.
When Bill died in 1964, Paul took over the...
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Read more »Tattoo's make the news in South Africa
On the 26th of December 1961 ‘The Johannesburg Star’ newspaper of South Africa reported on the story of Jacobus Van-Dyn.
Van-Dyn was in London trying to sell his tattooed head, Van-Dyn told the paper that his head...
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Read more »Tattooing in Copenhagen, Denmark
Considering it’s great seafaring traditions it will hardly come as a surprise to find that Denmark has and always has had its fair share of great tattoo artists.
And possibly one of the Countries most famous tattoo artists...
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Read more »Image Picture Post 1941
John Henry Rhodes (Cecil Rhodes)
Cecil Rhodes (John Henry Rhodes) (1880-1951) tattooed many of his army buddies during the First-World-War and opened his first studio at 173 Snargate Street, Dover, England.
Where he tattooed with...
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Read more »Tattoo Jock, Kings Cross, London
In 1985, I paid a visit to Jock Liddel at his tattoo studio in the Kings Cross area of London, England – For an article I wrote of which appeared in ‘Tattoo International’ magazine issue 96 – At the time Jock
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Read more »Princess Marie of Denmark tattooed
Prince Waldemar (1858-1939) of Denmark was believed to have been tattooed. We know for a fact that his wife Princess Marie (1865-1909) was via newspaper reports of the day.
Which included quite a profile on the French...
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Read more »A lithograph depicting Indigenous Australians and the arrival of Cook and his crew, titled "Captain Cook's Landing at Botany, AD 1770".CREDIT:NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA
Captain Cook finds tattooing in the South Sea's
King George III of England, on...
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Read more »Jessie Knight becomes Great Britains first professional female tattoo artist
Before Jessie Knight became Great Britain’s first professional female tattoo artist she worked for her father in his sharp shooting circus act.
Her job being to stand before...
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Read more »The tattooed Omai comes to England
On Captain Cook’s second voyage to the pacific (sailing from Plymouth, England, July the 13th 1772).
The commander of Cook’s second ship “Adventure” Captain Tobias Furneaux returned to England in 1774 with the Polynesian...
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Read more »Tattooed mummies
Early tattooed finds. In 1972 eight mummies (dated A.D. 1475) were found in Qllakitsoq, Greenland – and five of the six adult women and two children had blue and black tattoo marks on their face’s.
These tattooed marks consisting of...
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