Vintage PRIVATE EYE Silkscreen Printing Screen carved boy at the center of which

at the center of which is the grommeted hole from which string would be pulled (this would have been kept on a desk

There is a missing edge to the roof of the car with sliding doors

relatively humble one was made from cigar box wood I believe

I believe these date between 1870-1890

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

Vintage PRIVATE EYE Silkscreen Printing Screen carved boy at the center of whichI'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