1930 Buick Sport Roadster, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 untrained artist drawing receiving 75 cents per day

receiving 75 cents per day worked and loosing $1 per idle day

with a little paint loss around the edges and a small ding or smudge here and there

The best thing is sticking your hand inside and animating him: I think one could use him to ask anyone for anything and they would feel compelled to say yes

and makes me think that is likely about the age of this one--here's a link

5 1/4" across with arms outstretched

1930 Buick Sport Roadster, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 untrained artist drawing receiving 75 cents per dayThis 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,