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monster 08-12-2010 10:02 PM
The guy in the first one is saying -look! there's some soap! why don't you pick it up?

HungLikeJesus 08-12-2010 10:46 PM
The one in the middle is from my great-grandfather.

xoxoxoBruce 08-12-2010 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by sweetwater (Post 676205)
You'd think with all that time to plan an elegant and handsome design the tattoos might demonstrate some degree of artistic endeavor, wouldn't you? :eyebrow:
In prison, around 1900, with...
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Conditions in prisons allowed only for primitive tools and dangerous chemicals to be used in tattooing. Paper clips, pins, wires, razor blades and pieces of glass were used to puncture the skin and powdered coal, charcoal, burned rubber, cork, pencil refills, ink, watercolours and crayons were used as colour pigments, often mixed with water, urine, soap, cream or fat.
Artistic was moot.

spudcon 08-14-2010 08:46 AM
That's more than I needed to know. All those toxins, and mutilation too.


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