China Sea Vintage: Featuring the stash of Mike ‘Rollo’ Malone’s vintage handmade acetate stencils, inherited by Kandi Everett. Malone’s shop ‘China Sea Tattoo’ in Honolulu, Hawaii was first Keith Norman Collins, aka ‘Sailor Jerry’’s shop first. When the shop went to Mike Malone, rip, he inherited papers and drawings and precious scraps of this and that. We offer some of this Tattoo history to collectors.

Kandi Everett, was a local fine artist brought in by Rollo to teach his crew some drawing lessons. She stuck around and worked China Sea Tattoo in 1970’s-19980’s, also at Rollo’s Floating World Tattoo. Everett later opened Black Cat Tattoo, all in Honolulu. Ms. Everett worked along side of members and guests like Scott Sterling, Lance McLain, Leo Zulueta, Don Ed Hardy, and Bob Roberts who came through China Sea, and many others. Her pin up designs are fantastic.

Lance McLain got into Tattoos while in the US Navy, corresponding with tattoo artists like Paul Rogers, Zeke Ownes, and Don Ed Hardy to learn what they’d share. Through them he met Mike Malone, who taught him the ropes at China Sea Tattoo. He bought Floating World Tattoo from him in 1980’s. McLain recently retired from his shop Dragon Tattoo in Wahiawa, Hawaii. His unique flash design style is crazy cool. We represent Mr. McLain’s artwork, flash, and collections and handle his correspondence.

Polly Sills runs this shop and biz. Polly met Rollo at tattoo conventions back in the 1900’s. They bonded over vintage stuff, and he offered her apprenticeship at his wife Linda Kurian’s shop ‘Lucky Linda’s BodyArt’ in MN, right before he moved there from Hawaii. Sills helped Linda open the Aloha Monkey Tattoo Shop for him- up the road in Burnsville, MN. Polly tattooed for them, and ran shops in WI for 20+ years before retiring from it during The Pendemic. Then, Kandi Everett offered Polly Sills the help of helping her sell some treasures, and brought Mr.McLain into the deal. So that’s the China Sea Vintage ( store) story. We thank you for the support!