1930 Buick Sport Roadster, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 pip and matches I have found pretty much

I have found pretty much an exact match of this one beautiful little bone and brass folding ruler

and an image that I at least can't get out of my head

really a wonderful piece

while made as simple utilitarian pieces

all carved from one piece of wood

1930 Buick Sport Roadster, from J.T. Garvin's "Wildfire" Portfolio, 1969-70 pip and matches I have found pretty muchThis 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,