1919 Biddle Sport, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 profiles with a little red back

with a little red back emergency door

(*snuff box shoe sold separately

It seems like fate by which I found this "Flying Fickle Finger of Fate"--at an antiques/collectibles shop where I never find anything but popped into on a whim

and with a profile to match

and stands up straight on her own

1919 Biddle Sport, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 profiles with a little red backThis 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,