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Cutting
Black and white image from newspaper cutting of sinking ship with text ‘I SERVED'. Banner underneath with ‘U.S.S’. Part of the Jessie Knight collection of tattoo designs and related objects
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
F2021.21.610
Acquisition
Purchase, 1/3/2021
Measurements
Length
(mm): 42
Width
(mm): 102
Techniques
drawing
Material
paper
ink
Location
In store
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