Traditional colour tattoo of a pin-up woman with a rose in her hair, a blue anchor on her neck and a red compass star, on the upper arm.

Pin-up woman with rose and compass star

Traditional · Upper arm · Colour · Photo

The tattoo shows a pin-up style woman with dark curled hair, a red rose above her ear and green eyes, wearing a black and white striped sailor collar. A small blue anchor sits on her neck, and a red compass star with dotted shading sits below the collar. Bold black outlines and solid fills dominate, with red, green and skin tones standing out against the black and grey shading.

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Dear Tom, the red rose you pinned behind my ear on the quay has gone brown at the edges, so I have pressed it flat inside the almanac and told Mrs Pryce it was a relic. She did not believe me. She has not believed a word I say since the summer you sailed, when I told the whole Rope Walk you would be home by Michaelmas with a parrot and a fortune.

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The Marigold came in on Tuesday with her foremast split and her crew singing off-key, and I went down to the steps with my hair pinned up the way you liked it. Mr Dunn asked after you. I said you were somewhere past the Azores counting gulls. He laughed, because you were always the one who could not keep still long enough to be counted.

Your compass star is still on the dresser, the one you scratched into the tin lid with a nail. Every morning I turn it to face the north so I know which way to look. The needle keeps pointing at the sea, which is no help at all, and I suppose that is the whole point of a compass.

The blue anchor you drew on my wrist has faded to a grey smudge, and I have decided that is only the sea taking its share. Come home before the nights draw in, or I will walk down to Falmouth myself and ask the first mate why he is keeping a man who owes me a fortune. Yours, Nell.

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