141 Division St Ste 2 New York City (Manhattan), NY , 10002 Phone: (212) 533-8303 Website Daredevil Tattoo, in Chinatown, opened in 1997 when tattooing was legalized in NYC. We feature several artists working in all different styles of tattooing. Walk ins are always welcome and we are open every day noon until 10pm.
This machine is located in the front of the tattoo parlor, which happens to be a small museum dedicated to the history of tattoos. It is on the left when you walk in and the lovely people behind the counter have a bowl of pennies that you can used to make your pressed penny.
Designs are:
1) 'NYC Daredevil Museum', Head of a devil
2) 'NYC Tattoo Museum', Image of the Statue of Liberty's torch
3) Daredevil business card.
4) 'Tattoo Museum', And web site with Eagle
12/05/25: Machine wasn't not engaging the pennies and nothing was coming out. Apparently they were backing up. We had to wait for the gal with the machine key so he could open it up and unclog the pennies in the chute. They eventually found the key in the shop and he had to hand drop the pennies in to get the die to engage to roll. They came out great on my copper pennies.
The guy who helped me was SO NICE. He told us this Fun Fact about this machine - Lyle Tuttle, from CA owned this machine and Michelle got the machine from him. He was a tattoo artist and the only one to ever be on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine. As we chatted while trying to get the machine to work, he said they would probably never get rid of it but they can't find anyone to fix it so they work on it themselves. He was going to tighten the die rolls. Once again, they were so NICE! JLT |