The enigmatic Rich Mingins<\/p>\n
\u2018A very quiet man, smoking all the time. He used to tattoo while seated on a little bench in the back room of his house at 59 Redfern Road, Harleston, in London, while his wife busied herself in the kitchen. There was no flash on the wall, just a book on the table and on the side of his bench he had a roll of paper towel, actually a toilet roll. It was a small room. You had to wait outside. You could not go in until someone came out.\u2019
\n\u2018There\u2019s not much to tell about Rich Mingins,\u2019 recalls George Bone, whose body is adorned with examples of Mingins\u2019 work. Tattoo artist George Bone is one of the few surviving people with tattoos by Mingins, who was an enigmatic man about whom very little is known. Bone: \u2018When he was doing his tattoos, he actually never spoke. His work spoke for itself.\u2019
\nAnd that it did. Mingins\u2019 work was extremely popular in his time. \u2018His artistic work and custom designs were of high quality, and really stood apart from work of other tattoo artists,\u2019 states Bone, \u2018I had the impression, perhaps mistakenly, that he was the type of man who would say no to an interview, so it\u2019s not surprising that so little is known about him.’<\/p>\n
Mingins’ scrapbooks convey a beautiful overview of the world of tattoos and attitudes towards them during the first half of the twentieth century<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1288 Pictures of Early Western Tattooing from the Henk Schiffmacher Collection. Mingins’ scrapbooks convey a beautiful overview of the world of tattoos and attitudes towards them during the first half of the twentieth century<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":914,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[60],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-985","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-tattoo","7":"description-off","9":"first","10":"outofstock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n