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Rectangular wooden box, containing miscellaneous small objects used by the tattoo artist Jessie Knight

Objects include a leaflet for a Technos fountain pen, a clothing label, a tube of red watercolour paint, an eraser, a crocodile clip attached to damaged electrical wire, a block of wax, 6 pen tops, a metal clip, a piece of green rope, an elastic band, and a rectangular piece of plastic

Jessie Knight was the first prominent female tattooist in the UK. She took over her father's tattoo shop in Barry aged 18 in 1927 and went on to prominence whilst working in Chatham, Portsmouth and Aldershot. She returned to Barry in 1968, and continued to work there as a tattoo artist into the 1980s.