CultExciter Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 @gougetheeyes, haha. I always thought he looked a little more like Mike Patton, what do you think @dcostello? Tight-Lines 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tight-Lines Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 @gougetheeyes, haha. I always thought he looked a little more like Mike Patton, what do you think @dcostello? Who's Mike Patton? CultExciter and gougetheeyes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CultExciter Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 HAHAHAHA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YOMONEY Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Tattoo Convention in the Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh Pa in the Mid 90'sPittsburgh Hilton | Flickr - Photo Sharing! this is awsome! although, all of those people look like theyre stuck in the 80s.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadeIndelible Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Tony Polito: abees, sboyer, Duffa and 8 others 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylegrey Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Charlie Wagner tattooing - SnowyPlover and Lochlan 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Shirley Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 very cool.... Charlie Wagner tattooing - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 Found this one of Tony D'Annessa on Getty Images. They say the photo is from 1955, but Tony started tattooing in 1958 so who knows exactly when the photo is from. And one of Tony from the 4th of July this past year, posted by Dave Cummings on his instagram: That also answers the question about what a tattoo will look like with a scar through it: hard as fucking nails. Jake, Brock Varty, abees and 8 others 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cibo Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 (edited) i hate hearing the...just think how bad your tattoos will look in 20 years... hows about a few thousand years? more here :) hopefully not a repost Edited January 10, 2013 by cibo double posted Kev 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylegrey Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Horiyoshi III Graeme, Sodapopcurtis, Jake and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregor Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Head over to Steven Wrigleys instagram (STEVENWRIGLEY) he's posting loads of old stuff which belonged to his dad etc pure history !!!!! Graeme and kylegrey 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketfish344 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 very interesting photos! i'm trying to get a few by the end of the month Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylegrey Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Edith Burchett , wife of George Burchett . Pugilist, Graeme and Dan S 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadeIndelible Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Rilla, Pugilist, else and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YawkeyWay Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I really like this thread. Thank you for sharing the photos. I've been meaning to ask my wife's grandfather who/where he got his work done during the war. He was Navy and spent his entire time in the Pacific. My interest in traditional has me loving not only the look, but the history of the art. MadeIndelible 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Here are all the photos printed in George Burchett's posthumously published book, Memoirs of a Tattooist. The book has been out of print for a long time--my copy was published in 1958 and there was an American paperback version published in, I think, 1961, and there have been no reprints of it to my knowledge--and it's very possibly even in the public domain at this point which is why I'm posting it. Admins, if this isn't okay please feel free to delete this post because while I think this is worth sharing, I don't want to step on anybody's toes here. Apologies for glare, shadows, etc. Kahlan, rarehardtofind, Julius and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erica Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 "my most plucky client" awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MGblues Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 @Graeme If only the photos were in color... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 @Graeme If only the photos were in color... Black and white is fine with me but I wish there were pictures of flash or designs. It's a strange book in a lot of ways. There's an ad on the back of the book for a book called The Seven Deadly Sins of Hollywood that "deals with all aspects of the Hollywood way of life, from the obsessional interest in psychiatry to the obsessional cult of personal publicity" so I am assuming that the publisher, Oldbourne, mainly published sensationalist books, and the Burchett book is sort of along those lines. There's a lot of really cool stuff and stories in there, but you kind of get the impression that the book was published (it's also worth keeping in mind that the book was "compiled and edited" by Peter Leighton, based on notes Burchett had left behind in preparation for a memoir so what we're left with isn't necessarily what Burchett would have written himself) because it is sort of sensationalist and a curiosity. I was shocked to read Ed Hardy's introduction to the reissue of the Tattootime magazines where he mentions that prior to the publication of Tattootime that there had only been four books about tattooing published in English in the 20th century. There just wasn't the interest in preserving the history and traditions of tattooing prior to that, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadeIndelible Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 I always wanted to pick up that book. Great photos. Here's one that some of you will probably like: Graeme, MGblues and Kev 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teddibease Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 I always wanted to pick up that book. Great photos.Here's one that some of you will probably like: I know Rollins' backpiece wass done by Rick Spellman, but I was always really curious as to where he got his other tattoos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briankelly Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 when i worked in dublin, a guy came in with these tattoos. got them done when he was 15 by Johnny Eagle. surprisingly, he is still with Karen. he wanted to cover them up with tribal, even though i was putting more polished traditional on his son. never saw him again. MadeIndelible, Dan S and kylegrey 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadeIndelible Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Found this on Tumblr, but there were no tattooer credits. Lady Viola, tattooed by Frank Graf in the 20s. semele, Dan S, MGblues and 7 others 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylegrey Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Japanese Tattooed Mail Runners - Photos of 19th-Century Tattooed Japanese Mail Runners « TAM Blog Duffa 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwar Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 I met an old Swedish sailor a month or so back that let me take a few pictures of his tattoos. All he could remember was that the top two were done in the US, and the bottom two in Sweden, all from different artists during the 50's. He seemed stoked that someone took an interest in them, and I could see him stare at his own arms as he walked away after our conversation. bulldog, Jack, ItsNewport and 10 others 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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