Page 2 - Tattoo Facts

Ron Ackers attended five of Les Skuse’s ‘Bristol Tattoo Club’ get togethers and was so impressed with what he had seen, told Les that he would also like to do something along the same lines.

And with Les being the man he was,...

The classic record album ‘Indelibly Stamped’ by the group ‘Supertramp’ had on its cover the tattooed lady Marion Hollier and not Rusty Skuse as is often thought.

The record album ‘Indelibly Stamped’ (released June 1971) had...

1. New Zealand’s Roger Ingerton moved to Sydney, Australia in 1957, and tattooed with hand tools around the local pubs and for a time in his living accommodation. He also started to get tattooed by Australian tattooing...

In the years 1893-94, 1896-97 and 1898-1900 the Dutch government sponsored Dr Anton Nieuwenhuis in three expeditions to Borneo – to study the Dayaks of Kalimantan (Borneo being at the time a part of the Dutch East Indies).

And one...

A great DVD hit American stores in 2005 entitled ‘Stoney Knows How’

Which although only 29 minutes and 12 seconds long is a great piece of tattooing history – And in it we see Stoney St Clair tattooing tattoo legend Don Ed Hardy – Ed who...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...