1947 Davis Station Wagon, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 925 and what it means to

and what it means to be a Mason

What fun to have this vintage Towle pewter shell game set around--perhaps to pull out at cocktail parties

I assume this was carved for a child in order to do exactly that--and its tip appears to have taken a stab or two

who signed and dated this drawing in 1927

water stain to part of the back cover and a few inside pages

1947 Davis Station Wagon, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 925 and what it means toThis 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,