1919 Biddle Sport, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 terracotta figurines and a couple of dupes

and a couple of  dupes among them--but who wouldn't want a pair of double fives when they're are wonderfully wonky as these

but then this giraffe

minor crazing

In perfect structural condition

but is easily stuck right back in

1919 Biddle Sport, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 terracotta figurines and a couple of dupesThis drawing came from a larger portfolio of some 50 drawings, all of cars, most initialed and dated 1969 or 70 on reverse, which with some piecing together I've figured out were done by a Jerry Thayer Garvin of Nottingham, NH all as the imagined holdings of a fictional "Wildfire Corporation" founded in 1898. Found in the portfolio was an elaborate set of notes detailing the makers and models of the cars held in this fictional Wildfire Collection,