Neo-traditional tattoo of a moustached man in a bowler hat and a woman with pearls and earrings, beside a red rose, on an upper arm.

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Man and woman portrait with rose on upper arm

Neo-trad · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

The tattoo shows a man in a bowler hat and a moustache leaning towards a woman with red lips, drop earrings and a string of pearls, with a red rose and green leaves below. The linework is bold and the shading is smooth, with blue, green, red and skin tones across the figures. The design wraps around the arm from the shoulder down, with the rose anchoring the lower edge of the composition.

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The big top came down in Margate the week the wind turned. Mr Ambrose Vane stood in the wet sawdust with his bowler in his hands while the men folded canvas around him. He had sold the lions to a zoo in Yorkshire and the elephant to a farm near Ashford, and what was left of the Vane & Solace Circus fitted into two lorries and a caravan with a cracked window. I sewed the last sequins onto costumes at a card table in that caravan, and watched him count the takings twice on the bonnet of the Bedford.

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Lenore, who had told fortunes in the sideshow for nineteen years, would not leave without her pearls. They were real, she said, bought in Antwerp by a first husband before he drank the money. She kept them in a tin on the dashboard and wore them to every booking, even the car parks where nobody wanted their palms read. Ambrose courted her across three winters with one rose at a time from the florist in Dover, because he could not afford a dozen.

On the last night, outside Deal, the wind dropped and stars came out over the empty ground where the rings had been. Lenore came to the caravan in the pearls and a blue shawl and asked me for the scissors. She cut a rose from the jar and pinned it to his lapel, then lifted the bowler from its nail and set it on his head at the angle of the first poster.

In the morning their bed was cold before the lorries had moved. The bowler hung on its nail, and inside the band was a pressed rose gone brown at the edges, with a note: keep the sequins going, the next show always pays. I still have it. I still sew.

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