Vintage Tea Towel MCM 1950s 1960s Man Washing Dishes Cartoon Signed For Sale

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Vintage Tea Towel MCM 1950s 1960s Man Washing Dishes Cartoon Signed:
$125.00

Vintage Tea Towel

Featuring a mid - century cartoon illustration of a man struggling with a towering stack of dirty dishes .

30\'\' x 22\'\'

In excellent, unused condition. Made of pure Irish linen by Fast Colours .

Signed cartoonist Nevile Lodge .

Nevile Lodge was a well-known cartoonist, specializing in depictions of New Zealand’s racing and beer culture of the 1950s and 1960s, he was made an OBE in 1981.

Nevile Lodge’s cartooning career took off in a peculiar place. Serving as a Corporal during the Second World War, he was taken prisoner at El Alamein.

During his incarceration, he entertained fellow prisoners and guards with his comic sketches. After the war, he began life as a freelance cartoonist.