Tom Spaulding Vintage Tattoo Flash with Acetate Stencils

Description

Tom Spaulding’s Spauding & Rogers production flash from the late 1970s, cut up and glued to illustration board. This pork-chop sheet #398 has designs from several different sheets, hand colored by me (Tom Spauding), and includes all three original hand cut acetate stencils. This sheet hung in my Albany, NY tattoo studio from 1978 until 2019. There is a picture of the flash from 1981 hanging on the wall behind the bird cage (not included).
After 45 years in the business, I’m retiring. This flash has been an important part of my daily life, but it’s time to let it go. There is a lot of vintage flash on the market, but what makes mine special is the original acetate stencils that come with it. Back in the day, the stencils were more important than the flash. They were the only way most tattooers could accurately reproduce the designs from the drawing onto the skin. Cutting a good acetate stencil required skill and a lot of time. My dad, Huck Spauding, taught me that skill as well as drawing flash and tattooing it.
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