Two colour traditional tattoos side by side on a leg, one of an acorn and one of a thimble, each with a leaf and a red tag marked 23.

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Acorn and thimble tattoo pair on a leg

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Two matching tattoos sit side by side. The left shows a brown acorn with a green oak leaf and a red tag marked 23, and the right shows a grey thimble with a red tag marked 23 over a brown leaf. Bold dark outlines and flat fills with simple shading give the pair a classic colour look, and the two designs mirror each other across the frame.

Traditional Other Acorn Leaf Number Pair

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nell found the tin under the stairs, the biscuit lid gone soft at the corners. Inside, wrapped in a page of the local paper, were an acorn and a thimble, each with a red card tag tied on with string. Both tags said 23 in their gran's upright pencil, the same hand that had priced every jumble lot in Hallam Parva for forty years.

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Bea came in with the kettle still ticking on the hob and wanted the acorn at once. It came from the big oak at the bottom of the garden, the tree their dad had measured against the shed every birthday until the shed fell over. Nell said the thimble was hers, because it had sat on Gran's finger while she darned school jumpers at the kitchen table, and Nell could still hear the small tap of it against the needle. They argued about who had been there longest, and who had cried hardest the year the oak dropped its leaves in May, until the kettle boiled dry and neither of them moved to switch it off.

Then Nell turned the thimble over and found a brown leaf wedged under its rim, curled and dry, the same shape as the leaf that had been tucked beside the acorn. Bea held the acorn up and its cap settled neatly onto the thimble's crown, as if the two had always been meant to close around one another.

They left them together on the windowsill, both tags turned to face the room, and went to see about the kettle.