SOLD Continental Mark II by Garvin, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 interlocking rings in a wooden bottomed box

in a wooden bottomed box rather than a cardboard one (though the top half remains only as a piece of cardboard over top

with stains here and there and creasing at the centers of some

and red painted lips

I find this antique handmade card--maybe a valentine

with a forged metal blade held to the wooden body with two tangs

SOLD Continental Mark II by Garvin, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 interlocking rings in a wooden bottomed boxThis 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,