Spaulding & Rogers

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Spaulding & Rogers
legal form Corporation
founding 1956
Seat Voorheesville
Number of employees 70
Branch Tattoo equipment and supplies
Website http://www.spaulding-rogers.com/

The Spaulding & Rogers Manufacturing Inc is an in Voorheesville based company that Tätowierausrüstungen and consumables for tattoo manufactures and distributes. It already had 37,000 customers in 1995 and was the largest provider in the US market in the 1970s and 1980s.

history

Huck Spaulding at his supplier booth at the 1979 Denver Tattoo Convention

While in Jacksonville , Marine Huck Spaulding met the tattoo artist and machine builder Paul Rogers. Rogers described Spaulding as "a tattoo artist with very limited experience who had worked a little on the traveling sideshow ." Spaulding and Rogers came into being. “This business became the home of the famous, world-renowned supplier company. The "Spaulding and Rogers Mfg." was the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of tattoo equipment in the late 1950s. ”Under the company Spaulding & Rogers Mfg. Corp. The tattoo artists Huck Spaulding and Paul Rogers offered tattoo equipment and consumables for tattoo artists from 1956. In the 1970s they rose to become the largest tattoo supplier in the USA. In the early 1980s they expanded the mail order business to Europe and Australia, now it is purely online. The range includes equipment and accessories for both piercers and tattooists. Due to growing competition , the company only plays a subordinate role today.

Paul Rogers at the 1988 National Tattoo Convention in Orlando.

Huck Spaulding

Darwin W. "Huck" Spaulding was born on December 5, 1928 in Voorheesville , the son of Harold D. Spaulding and his wife Altha . He served in the US Navy and was stationed in Jacksonville, among others. At the beginning of the 1950s, he and his wife Josephine M. “Josie” (November 6, 1931 to February 8, 2017) started selling tattoo equipment. Together with Paul Rogers (1905–1990) he founded the company Spaulding & Rogers Mfg., Which was the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of tattoo equipment until the 1980s. Spaulding was a big game hunter and competed in NASCAR races. In 1957 he drove e.g. B. eight races with a total of 1006 laps and reached 36th place. Don Ed Hardy described him as "one of the forefathers of the tattoo renaissance". Huck Spaulding died on February 1, 2013 at the age of 84. He was buried in Albany in Memory Gardens Cemetery and Memorial Park.

Paul Rogers

Franklin Paul Rogers was born on September 9, 1905 in Bryson City , North Carolina . In his early life he was active in the traveling circus. He was with Cap from 1945 to 1950. Coleman trained as a tattoo artist in Norfolk, Virginia and later designed tattoo machines that he called "Iron"; a term he coined and which is still used in industry today. Paul Rogers was married to Helen Gertrude Gensamer Rogers (born June 4, 1912, † November 1982). In 1983, Rogers was inducted into the Tattoo Hall of Fame . He died on February 27, 1990 and is buried in Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Chesapeake, Virginia.

Publications

  • Huck Spaulding: Tattooing A to Z: A Guide to Successful Tattooing. Huck Spaulding Enterprises 2000, ISBN 0-9706320-0-2 .
  • Huck Spaulding, Paul Rogers: My Secret Stash

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Bloomberg: Spaulding & Rogers Manufacturing Inc , accessed May 2, 2020.
  3. ^ Margot Mifflin: Bodies of Subversion. powerHouse Books 2013, ISBN 1-576-8769-26 , p. 66.
  4. ↑ tattoo-life: Tattoo portraits: Darwin “Huck” Spaulding
  5. ^ Margo De Mello: Inked: Tattoos and Body Art around the World. P. 618 ff.
  6. ↑ Alex White: Global Tattoo Equipment Market 2020- Analysis And In-Depth Research On Market Size, Trends, Emerging Growth Factors And Forecast To 2027 Latest Herald Market Research Reports, May 2, 2020.
  7. ^ The Mariners' Museum / Corbis: THE FOREFATHERS OF TATTOOING - “CAP” COLEMAN & PAUL ROGERS. In: selvedgeyard.com. Retrieved June 6, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Darwin “Huck” Spaulding Dies. In: huntforever.org. Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
  9. ^ NASCAR Sprint Cup Statistics. In: racing-reference.info. Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
  10. ↑ racing-reference.info
  11. ↑ Marcel Feige: The Tattoo and Piercing Lexicon P. 278–279.
  12. ^ Margo De Mello: Inked: Tattoos and Body Art around the World. P. 559.
  13. ↑ Kelly Gibson: A Short History of Military Tattoos , VFW Magazine, Vol. 103, No. 10 (Aug 2016), p. 46.