OUR PATRON SAINT!

LEONARD 'STONEY' ST.CLAIR (1912-1980)

Stoney was an American tattooist who travelled the USA with the circus, originally as a sword swallower and latterly as a tattoo artist, all the while confined to a wheelchair due to rheumatoid arthritis which he contracted at the age of four. 

With his indomitable spirit, good humour and  self confessed 'love of mankind', Stoney forged a rewarding life for himself through tattooing on the road with the circus for many years before settling in Columbus, Ohio where he tattooed until his death in 1980.

WWSD! 

STONEY KNOWS HOW: TATTOO MASTER STONEY ST. CLAIR

DIRECTED BY PACHO LANE (1981)
PRODUCED BY ETHNOSCOPE
'STONEY MEETS ED HARDY'