SOLD 1970 Packard, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 to han g The sampler

The sampler

This vintage hand-carved wood totem letter opener by master Northwest Coast carver Ray Williams (1933-88) would make a great gift

red to black

with a wool weft and cotton warp

I especially love this little bit of reddish stamp giving the hat of the boy at right a little pompom

SOLD 1970 Packard, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 to han g The samplerThis 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,