1989 Jerry Swallow Paul Rogers Tribute Traditional Style Tattoo Flash Sheet N.S.

Description: VERY RARE 1989 Sailor Jerry Swallow, "Halifax, N.S. 1989", Paul Rogers Tribute, Tattoo Flash Sheet. Laminated, High Quality Copy. TRADITIONAL Flowers, Banners, Roses, Ect. Measures Roughly 11X15" (Inches). READY FOR DISPLAY, IN ANY TATTOO SHOP, ART COLLECTION, OR TATTOO MUSEUM! Old School, Vintage Style Tattoo Flash. Would Look Great Matted Framed! PLEASE SEE PICTURES FOR CONDITION. WHAT A WONDERFUL RARE PIECE OF TATTOO HISTORY!!!!!!! This is a great piece of Artwork to display in your shop, or a proud addition to any collection! This is a great investment for any Tattoo Shop or Art Collector! Will Ship FLAT, Priority Mail. I WILL COMBINE SHIPPING ON MULTIPLE ITEMS! SAILOR JERRY SWALLOW Apprenticed under: Charlie Snow, but people such as Sailor Joe Simmons, Kazuo Oguri a.k.a Horihide of Gifu, Mitsuaki Ohwada a.k.a Horikin of Yokahama, Hiroshi Sakamoto, Paul Rogers, Cliff Raven, Tatts Tommy, August "Cap" Coleman, Huck Spaulding, "Brooklyn" Joe Lieber and Zeke Owen (to name a few) have been a influence, or a friend to him over the years. Shops: 1960 Swallow, Snow and Professor Baldwin Tattoo Shop which dates back to 1890. 2008 Sailor Jerry Swallow’s Olde Tyme Tattoo in Victoria BC, Canada To start this off. I know some of you will confuse Sailor Jerry Swallow to Sailor Jerry Collins. So here are the facts: Sailor Jerry Swallow is a Canadian Tattooer and still very much alive. Sailor Jerry Collins died in 1973 (R.I.P). Sailor Jerry Swallow DID NOT steal the name Sailor Jerry from Sailor Jerry Collins. Even if some people still insist on that. He got the nickname Sailor when he's dad took him down the waterfront to see USN aircraft carriers. He was standing around USS Essex and a sailor came by. Pi$$ drunk. Tanked like a ************. The sailor took off his hat, put it on Jerry's head, gave him a salute, and said something like You’re a real sailor now!. And that was that. After that he was the king s*** for a while. And then he got into tattooing... Jerry's start in tattooing was an early one. He helped Sailor Joe Simmons (who was in his 80’s and half blind), by mixing his red ink, drawing pictures for him, telling him if his needles were hooked or not. He was still only 12-13, back in late 1950’s. But it never did amount to nothing more. Charlie Snow took an interest in Jerry, so he made him draw his ass off and sweep the floors. Normal s*** in other words. Jerry started tattooing under his guidance at May 25 in 1960, when he was just 15 years old. That is where Jerry learned to love and respect the art of tattooing. In a shop that was the oldest tattoo shop in Canada, dating back to 1890. The roots were deep. He learned the immense importance of flash art. If you were a tattooer, you did flash. And still, after close to 49 years of tattooing he is still doing it. It is safe to say that many classic American tattoo designs that you see today, be it modified or originals, wouldn't even be around with out people like Sailor Jerry Swallow. A good guide for all this is a book by Jerry titled Traditional American Tattoo Design. Here is what the esteemed C.W. Eldridge writes in his book. "Sailor Jerry Swallow does a great job of crediting the source of these designs and giving the artists of the past their due! Military, religious, figural, animal, and nature themes are displayed among the many hundred designs. Changes in tattoo art over the years is shown as well as the trend today to return to earlier designs. This book will be an endless source of inspiration for those who are passionate about tattoo art." Needles to say, it is a must have. The importance of the work done by Jerry for American tattooing alone would be a huge feat. But he has also defined Canadian, and most likely to some extent American tattoo culture in ways that only few have. In the 1960's you didn't have a Internet, so many times you kept in touch with other tattooers via snail mail. Jerry had correspondence with Japanese master tattoo artists such as Mitsuaki Ohwada of Yokahama, Kazuo Oguri and Hiroshi Sakamoto. They exchanged letters which contained drawings that Jerry did of traditional Japanese subjects which were critiqued and corrected by the masters. He studied the world of Horimono (japanese tattooing) trough out the 60's and brought it to Canada in the early 70's. After he had proved to always honour and respect the traditions of Japanese tattooing, he received the title Hori (Hori means literally "carve" and dates back to Japanese artists who did woodblock prints, also know as Ukiyo-e) in 1979. He could choose to be named after Horihide (Kazuo Oguri) or to be called Horiryu, which means dragon. He chose to be called Horiyu. And so now he was Horishi; tattooist worthy of tattooing traditional Japanese motifs. John "The Dutchman" credits Jerry for introducing Japanese tattooing to tattoo artists in Canada. Jerry's influence is evident in many of the names I mentioned earlier. Because of his love for tattooing, it is much easier for us to know those artists that have defined what western tattooing is. Names like "Brooklyn" Joe Lieber, August “Cap” Coleman, Paul Rogers, Zeke Owen. And even people such as Ed Hardy, Paul Jeffries, Bob Roberts and Horiyoshi III can give a collective nod towards Jerry for always staying true to the spirit of tattooing. Never harming it. Being true. True tattoo heroes aren't just the ones that everyone know about. There are some who have spend all their years in silence, just grinding the f*** on. Just keeping that spark alive. Keeping us alive. Because the flash and art that you see in some shops, might be the only thing that is left from the ones who came before. And in these days I cant help to think that it means so much for to have something so rich in meaning. There is real soul buried in those sheets and designs. They have real living faces behind them. And when it has taken someone a life time to keep it alive and dragg it back to the modern world, intact and pure while still bleeding that pitch black history, I can only say; Mister Sailor Jerry Swallow, you have my eternal respect.-Pitch Black. Paul Rogers was born on September 9th 1905 in North Carolina, and spent most of his childhood moving from one cotton mill town to the next. Paul started to work in the mills when he was only 13 years old, long before child labor laws were enacted. "Nothing but hardship, man it was hard for everyone." Paul worked in the cotton mills until he was 37 years old. Thankfully, his last years in the mills were part time, because in 1926 when Paul was 21, he got his first tattoo and found his lifetime occupation. Only two years later he was tattooing with a kit he mail ordered from E.J. Miller in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1932 after tattooing all the folks around his home, Paul hit the road with the J.J. Page Show in search of adventure and clean skin. Later that very same year, Paul joined the John T. Rea Happyland Show where he met and married the boss's daughter, Helen Gensamer. For most of the next decade Paul and Helen worked the carnival circuit in the summers and worked in the cotton mills during the winters. In 1942 when Paul got a chance to tattoo in Charleston, South Carolina, he jumped at it. At this time his pay envelope from the mill for a 40-hour workweek was $42, which was the biggest payday he ever had in the mills. After getting his shop up and rolling, Paul now was making $150 to $200 a week! Needless to say, Paul never went back to the mills. In 1945 Paul began a 5 years association with Cap Coleman of Norfolk, Virginia. Coleman was already a legend in the tattoo world and Paul said it was like a dream come true to be invited to work with Coleman. Paul stayed in Norfolk until 1950, when the city fathers shut down tattooing in that city. Coleman moved across the Elizabeth River to Portsmouth, Virginia and tattooed for a few more years. Paul and Lathan Connelly opened shops in Petersburg, Virginia and Jacksonville, North Carolina. In 1955 when Paul grew tired of traveling between these shops, he took the Jacksonville location and Connelly took the Petersburg shop. This is where the mail order supply business of Spaulding & Rogers was formed. Paul was involved in this business for only a couple of years, but Paul and Huck Spaulding worked together in Jacksonville up until 1961. In 1960 they closed their shop on Courts Street and went to Alaska. This only lasted for one month and they returned back to Jacksonville, North Carolina soon after. From 1961 to 1963 Paul and his family lived in Camden, New Jersey where Paul tattooed with Sailor Eddie Evans. In 1963, he moved to Jacksonville, Florida and tattooed with Bill Williamson. The very next year Bill Williamson died and Paul inherited his shop. By 1970, Paul was back working in Jersey with Ernie Carafa on a part time basis. In 1970 Paul and Helen Rogers bought a mobile home at 1200 Shetter Avenue #3 in Jacksonville, Florida. It was here that Paul brought his decades of experience together with what he had learned from the likes of Coleman, Bill Jones, Jack Wills, Charlie Barr and others, and built some of the best running tattoo machines in the business. In 1982 Helen, Paul's wife of 49 years, died. She was buried at the Greenlawn Cemetery in Portsmouth, Virginia. In 1983 Paul Rogers was admitted to the Tattoo Hall of Fame in San Francisco, California, which was part of the Tattoo Art Museum created by Lyle Tuttle. Paul suffered a stroke at his home in Jacksonville in 1988 and never fully recovered. The next 2 years were spent in a nursing home in Jacksonville. Paul died in 1990, at the age of 84, after spending 56 years in the tattoo business. He was buried with his wife in Portsmouth, Virginia.Paul left his extensive tattoo collection to the Tattoo Archive. In 1993, C.W. Eldridge, Alan Govenar, D. E. Hardy and Henk Schiffmacher formed a California nonprofit corporation, The Paul Rogers Tattoo Research Center ("PRTRC") where they serve on the Board of Directors. The primary goal of the PRTRC is to preserve tattoo history. Originally published by the Tattoo Archive © 2003 Updated 2017

Price: 29.99 USD

Location: Port Saint Lucie, Florida

End Time: 2024-02-24T16:11:29.000Z

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