Red stamp-style lettering reading SAVEMONEY inside a rectangular border, tattooed on the inside of a forearm against a green and yellow background.

SAVEMONEY stamp lettering on a forearm

Lettering · Forearm · Colour · Photo

The design is the word SAVEMONEY in bold capital letters, enclosed in a rectangular border with rounded corners, styled to resemble a rubber stamp impression. The lettering and border are solid red ink with even, filled edges and no shading. The forearm fills most of the frame against a blurred green and yellow abstract background.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The stamp had been ordered from a catalogue in 1987 and arrived in a brown box with a leaflet about ink. Mrs Eluned Pritchard kept it in the second drawer of the sub-post office counter, beside the second-class stamps and a tin of mints nobody was allowed to touch. Every Thursday the miners' widows came in with their pension books, and every Thursday she pressed the red rectangle onto the back of a form, and the words sat there, square and certain: SAVEMONEY.

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Nobody in the valley had ever asked what it meant. It was a head office instruction, the area manager said, left over from the days when the pit paid wages in cash and the cash went home in paper packets. Eluned read it differently. She read it as a promise she had been making on behalf of other people for thirty-one years, and she had never once let the ink run dry.

Then a young man from regional office arrived with a laptop, a lanyard and a plan to close the counter on Thursdays. He watched her stamp a withdrawal slip and frowned at the faded border, where her thumb always pressed a little harder on the left. "That mark isn't official any more," he said. "Everything's digital now."

She slid the slip across to him, still warm from the pad. "Then you'll have to tell the widows that," she said, and stamped the next form, and the one after. He stood there a long time with the slip in his hand. The following week he came back on a Thursday, before the bus, and asked her to show him how she inked it.