Vintage PRIVATE EYE Silkscreen Printing Screen carved boy The smoothed bottom of this

The smoothed bottom of this old masher shows that it was much used

I like that he's got nothing more than a tiny blue dot for an eye and red one for the nose

purchased from the estate of art professor & art historian Jill McKeever Furst

I believe these date between 1870-1890

and three small green diamonds at the center of opposite sides

Vintage PRIVATE EYE Silkscreen Printing Screen carved boy The smoothed bottom of thisI'd love to know the story behind this one whether this silkscreen was made to print the logo of an actual "Private Eye" or a fictional one, and in either case who they were! Of course I like it for the EYE (as in Critical Eye, too), but also for how it breaks the eye done into its component parts, and especially for all of the connotations of the eye being private! 19 1 8" x 16 1 4" x 11 16". Very good condition with a little loss to one corner of