Eskimo Ice, 1970s Greenwich Village Street Photo round mat While very naively done (which

While very naively done (which of course I love)

To my eye quite a satisfying thing

Short fork: 10 1/4" x 2 5/8" x 1/2"

Light staining/foxing and browning & bleeding of what I would guess was once black ink

and the wood is in excellent shape

Eskimo Ice, 1970s Greenwich Village Street Photo round mat While very naively done (whichI purchased this one from a favorite dealer in the Hudson River Valley, with lots of bins of drawings and photos and ephemera to dig through. I love it for feeling like a whole world on a corner, and iconic of a Manhattan long gone. (The Eskimo Ice cart also makes me think of David Hammons's brilliant snowballs for sale street performance of 1983.) A handwritten note on the reverse of the photo reads "Greenwich Village, 1970s" and looking closely one