pro print: antique vintage joe mabel darpel tattoo business card flash texas

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pro print: antique vintage joe mabel darpel tattoo business card flash texas
11x14 professional copy archival print, excellent quality from a hi res scan directly (and color print matched) from rare original darpel business card.
each print was professionally printed, color matched to the original and produced on 110 weight, archival, matte ivory paper using only fade-resistant, archival, pigment-based inks.
Joe Darpel, 1901-1968, was a lifelong carnival/circus sideshow manager, tattooed and tattooed man. He had a body suit of beautiful tattoos that were put on by Bert Grimm or William Grimshaw or both (and probably others) sometime in the late 1910s.
Around that same time he began tattooing on sideshows and carnivals. It was at one of William Kennedy's sideshows where Joe met Mabel Kennedy (William's daughter) where Joe was sideshow manager. Mabel was quite an accomplished sideshow performer as psychic, knife thrower and horse rider and later an accomplished tattooer herself.
Later they were married in a carnival and they became tattooing partners, traveling with sideshows and operating tattoo shops in Virginia, Kansas and finally in Texas for many years. Joe and Mabel both painted beautiful tattoo flash that is very rare, loved and sought after by serious collectors.
Dutch Van Dee was a prolific and influential central Texas tattooer, carnival/sideshow operator, boxer, wrestler, outlaw, and wild man. Dutch started tattooing in the late 1920s until he died in 1974, mostly in Texas but also in Canada and across the US. Dutch was also the original owner of the "Texas Flash Collection", one of the largest collections of antique and vintage tattoo flash ever collected.  The original darpel flash sheet was part of that collection.
last 2 photos are extremely rare photo of dutch himself in front of several sheets of tattoo flash, circa 1950s in texas and mabel darpel circa 1930s.  neither of these are included in the sale but just to add historical context to the card.
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note:  have lots of tattoo items which are priced to sell.  every day i slowly revise prices, decreasing them by a dollar or 2, each day.  also, typically i add in a freebie item with your purchase as a thank you.  :)
will combine shipping on multiple items to actual shipping cost. Typically I will send the difference back on paypal via a separate transaction. Ask if questions.  if you are in Canada, ask and I will adjust shipping cost to , from .
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