1938 Graham Supercharger, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 primitive pencil box ultimately giving way to these

ultimately giving way to these great elongated balls in cages with bulbous ends that remind me rather of ballerina feet on point

and a beautiful dry wood patina to the pine

and which I purchased from a British seller from a collection of works related to the Burton family of Clifton House

The head is attached to the interior of the neck by a thin wire

plus a spatter of white paint here and a little red

1938 Graham Supercharger, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 primitive pencil box ultimately giving way to theseThis 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,