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Tattooing case
Tattooing case used by Jessie Knight. Wooden case with metal handle on lid. With floral paper decoration on outside and inside lid. Two wooden flaps inside, one conceals tattoing machine attached to the inside of the box on one side. Other flap conceals space for storing other equipment (see item nos. F2021.21.241.1
F2021.21.241.2
F2021.21.241.4-25)
Paper label inside lid with handwritten text: JESSIE (KNIGHT) EXPERT TATTOO ARTIST
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.