The Tattoo Catalogue: 2026 - Tattoo, Circus, Sideshow, and Curiosities
Slightly dinged. Bends on top or bottom corner. Images not compromised.
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ARTISTVarious
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CURATORDerin Bray
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PAGES118
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BINDINGSoftcover
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SIZE8.5" x 10.75"
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WEIGHT1.5 lbs
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CONTENTTattoo history, photos, and flash images
Bray & Co. is pleased to present the fourth installment of The Tattoo Catalogue. This limited-edition volume features hundreds of rare and important objects, including newly discovered tattoo flash, vintage photographs, shop signs, tattoo machines, business cards, and other ephemera from some of the most iconic figures in the rich and colorful history of tattooing.
Richly illustrated and accompanied by scholarly essays and previously unpublished images, this volume brings to light significant new material relating to Ralph Johnstone, Percy Waters, Amund Dietzel, George Burchett, Lew Alberts, Paul Rogers, and many others.
Also featured are several remarkable private collections, including an extraordinary group of original flash art and related material from Fred Marquand, long hidden from public view; a historically significant scrapbook assembled by Paul Rogers containing items dating from the 1910s through the 1960s; and the largest group of original works by Bert Grimm ever offered at public auction; and highlights from the Collection of Frank Carter.
Representing the largest and finest assemblage of tattoo masterworks and related artifacts ever brought to market, The Tattoo Catalogue serves as the companion volume to an auction presented by Bray & Co. on July 26, 2026.
Danny G - My Private Collection: Frank Howard Edition
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ARTISTFrank Howard
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PAGES48
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BINDINGHardcover
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SIZE6.25" x 9.25"
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WEIGHT0.55 lbs
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CONTENTWatercolor paintings
My Private Collection: Frank Howard Edition, from Danny G, reproduces more than twenty original watercolor tattoo designs by Frank Howard (1857-1925), who at his peak ran the largest tattoo shop and supply business in the United States. Dragons, geishas and demon heads - designs painted to be worn, not framed.
The paintings came down through Boston's Liberty family. Edward "Dad" Liberty began tattooing around 1916 a block from Howard in Scollay Square and, after Howard's death in 1925, took over his Court Street shop along with equipment, effects and painted window shades. The watercolors are on the same material as those shades and were likely bound for customers to browse. They later passed to Harold "Lefty" Liberty, Boston's last working tattooer before the state banned tattooing in 1962.
This compact 48-page hardcover is vintage tattoo flash and tattoo history in one, and a reference for identifying Howard's style.
