SOLD Continental Mark II by Garvin, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 interlocking rings and red painted lips

and red painted lips

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

I find this antique handmade card--maybe a valentine

Grace: "Think of me doing this

5 3/8” t x 2 1/16” d (base) and in great condition

SOLD Continental Mark II by Garvin, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 interlocking rings and red painted lipsThis 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,