A Complete 1940's Store Display Set

Patriotic Water Transfer Tattoos

1 gross Penny Tattoos


Complete set mounted on their Original Store Display Card and still in the original packaging! Different than the 1950s’s Tattoos! This display is 9 inches wide and 11inches tall. It contains one gross of the 3 inch, square, Penny Tattoos 1¢ Tattoos. Commonly found in Ma and Pa stores, dime stores, General Stores, Novelty Stores, etc. in the 1940's and 1950's.

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Each Penny Tattoo is perforated into 4 sections each with an individual tattoo. 1¢ got you your choice of a set of 4 tattoos that you wet, put on your arm for a few seconds, and remove the paper leaving the water soluble ink on your arm, looking like a tattoo! Sometimes called a transfer. Kids would buy these with the sailors or ships if dad was in the Navy, or airplanes if he was in the Air Force, etc. Note the reverse lettering! Fantastic detailing and colors!

You are getting the whole store display card set including the graphic rack, wall or counter top display card with 1 Gross of 6 different sets of 4, (24 different tattoos!) for a total of 576 tattoos! The 1940’s set includes Joseph Stalin, Churchill, Generals Eisenhower, Macarthur, and Marshall and President Roosevelt! ~ Perfect Unused Condition! Almost if they came through a time warp! With the original Wrapping materiel!  This item is typical of stuff in the large Dime Store merchandise finds we made. If you like vintage Dime Store and Variety Store stuff, bookmark our sellers page.

Esnarf Item . #810-B Price . . $9.85

See also Similar set from the 1950's   #810

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