Description: ORIGINAL, (Vintage Item, NOT A MODERN DAY REPRODUCTION), Mickie Kott 1980's, Emporium Of Design, Denver, Colo. Tattoo Flash Production Sheet. Shop Used In (Sailor Bill Killingsworth's Shop). Sheet Measures Roughly 11X14" (Inches). The Tattoo Designs on this sheet include: Traditional, Biker, 1%, Dragon, Castle, Motorcycle, Ect. Shop Used With Obvious Wear. May smell like smoke, have mold, yellowing, Rips, Tears, Pin holes, Staples ect. Please see pictures for details and condition. From a collection I acquired from a collection I purchased from Sailor Bill's Shop in GA. I HAVE A BUNCH OF TATTOO FLASH LISTED, SO PLEASE SEE MY OTHER ITEMS!!!!!!! Would look great framed This is a great piece of Artwork to display in your shop. This is a great investment for any Tattoo Shop, Art Collection, Or Tattoo Museum! Will Ship Flat, Priority Mail. I WILL COMBINE SHIPPING ON MULTIPLE ITEMS! Denver City Tattoo Club could be a museum of Denver’s tattoo history. Nikolas Pew, who opened the shop at 3451 Larimer Street in 2017, has covered the walls with flash by legendary artists from this city and beyond. Pew got his start in tattooing at a young age; family friends Greg and Peggy Skibo, the owners of shops in Cheyenne, Greeley and Fort Collins, showed him the ropes decades ago. “There is history on these walls,” Pew says. “There are certain artists who are from Denver or spent time in Denver who are special to me. I wanted to make sure to find a home for those pieces, because they’re relevant to what I’m trying to do with this studio.” The walls feature flash from many gape-worthy artists: Rex Ross, Mickie Kott, Edward Lee, Peter Tat-2 and David Gibson, whom Ross taught. “Gibson is considered one of the all-time greats, a legend,” Pew says. “Rex was Dave Gibson’s mentor. A lot of people don’t know that he started tattooing in Denver. He became a very well-known and respected tattooist; he was a really good sign painter, too, and he lettered the windows at Peter’s shop.” Flash, particularly that of the caliber on Pew’s walls, became popular again as tattoo artists and clients began exploring the industry’s history and roots. Pew compares it to music: Even as new genres emerge, people always seem to acknowledge and have an admiration for the classics. But no one appreciates the past more than Pew. “Red Gibbons is one of the earliest tattooers to have a shop in Denver, back in the ’30s,” he says. “He tattooed out of an arcade on Curtis Street, and he was the husband of the most famous tattooed woman of that time, Artoria Gibbons.” He also recalls R.J. Rosini, who tattooed in Denver in the ’70s and ’80s with his partner “Sneakin’ Deacon,” whom Pew describes as “a biker poet and tattooer, kind of a Kerouac of the tattoo world; he made several books.” Omnipresent in those early days were other outlaw types, including notorious Denver tattooer Edward Lee. “His flash was very ‘hot’ for how young he was; his style was very much influenced by Frank Speaker and Mickie Kott; they kind of took him under their wing,” Pew says. “His art had a punk rock/biker element to it — really cool ’80s-style stuff. He ended up going to prison for a very long time for murdering somebody. I think the tattoo community embraced him because he was an outlaw; he got into tattooing at a very young age, and he could draw.” Mickie Kott was one of the female artists who got her start in Denver. “She teamed up with legends Greg Skibo, Frank Speaker and Edward Lee to form Metro Tattoo around 1990,” Pew says. “That shop was firebombed by a jealous competitor. After that, she reopened as Tattooing by Mickie.”
Price: 59.99 USD
Location: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
End Time: 2024-10-29T01:32:55.000Z
Shipping Cost: 9.99 USD
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Brand: Mickie Kott
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
