M0020023: Instrument for tattooing deserters from the British Army

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Instrument for tattooing deserters from the British Army.

Photograph of an instrument for tattooing deserters from the British Army. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1961 (accession number R361/1961)

March 1965

2 photographs sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm photographic print; 9 x 12 cm

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.