Black and grey realistic pirate skull tattoo wearing a bandana, shown in a close photograph of the skin.

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Realistic pirate skull with bandana

Realism · Other · Black and grey · Photo

A large skull wearing a pirate bandana with dangling beads dominates the frame, with its jaw open and teeth showing. The shading is smooth and highly detailed, using deep blacks and soft grey highlights to give the bone and fabric a three-dimensional look. The design is shown tightly cropped in black and grey, with the skin edge visible at the left.

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Dear Tobias,

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The bandana you left on the hook by the door has gone stiff with salt, so I have hung it over the range to soften, the way your father used to. The beads are still on it, the little blue glass ones your grandmother strung for the summer you were nine. Harbour Row is quiet now that the Margaret Ann has gone out past the breakwater on the ebb, and Mr Pryce has taken to sitting on the bollard outside the chandlery, telling anybody who will listen that the skull painted on her bow was made for luck and not for frightening the gulls.

I went down to the quay yesterday to read the tide chart pinned at the lifeboat house. Someone had scratched a jaw full of teeth into the wet paint of the notice board, grinning at the sea wall, and nobody has had the heart to scrub it off. Tell Captain Ruddock I said he owes me a shilling for the lamp oil, and that the rat which got into the flour bin has been dealt with by the cat, who is very pleased with herself.

The letter from the owners came on Tuesday. They want the cargo sold by Michaelmas and the cottage cleared. I told the postman to tell them I am not going anywhere until you are back to argue about it. So write when the ship makes Lisbon, and if the weather turns, do what your father would have done: keep the bandana tied tight and your face to the wind.

Yours in haste, Mam

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