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Photo postcard: Front is photograph of male / female knife throwing act captioned ‘The Sensational Denvers’. Back is addressed to ‘Miss J Knight…Aldershot, Hants.’ and signed “love Ella”. Postmarked Brixton 11 Mar 1948
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.
Collection Area
Social & Cultural History
Item Number
F2021.21.205
Measurements
Length
(mm): 102
Width
(mm): 146
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