Buick Roadmaster, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 Japanese clown puppet and an old lead weight

and an old lead weight nailed to the bottom

visible on its spine

I found this wonderful box at an estate sale in MA in a modest house packed to the gills with a long lifetime's accumulation

As usually one finds them one at a time

Buick Roadmaster, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 Japanese clown puppet and an old lead weightThis 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,