Antique Car Print - Doggie Valentine 1920s - Open Top Roadster

Treasures from THE AUTOMOTIVE COLLECTION at Lost Highways Archive & Research Library. By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 22 x 24, and consciously formatted to work with a 22 x 24 frame, or custom framed as you see fit. For further easy, inexpensive framing options, please feel free to contact us.

Sometimes everything just comes together so fast and so magnificently, so simply and so honestly that you roar with joy for having been a part of it...

I bought this Valentine, probably late 20s or early 30s, many moons ago to give to my beloved. Vintage cars and road trips and doggies are very much a part of our lives, and I keep my eyes open year round to find and stash an appropriately groovin' Valentines card to give to her on the big day. Then, after discreetly stealing it back from her, it got buried in a 'to do' pile. Not an uncommon thing around here (You should see the mountains of tiny to mid sized paper treasures teetering like something drawn by Dr. Seuss). When I went to scan it at super high res, I forgot to put the white paper between the graphic and the heavy old book I use to flatten things. The green nubbly background is the back of the book. To quote Eddie Cantor... "What a perfect combination, no wonder we're in love!"

Warning... there is nothing about this image that isn't POW! It really leaps into the room, and is never any less bright or joyous!

This print is 22 x 24 on a fine semi gloss with a subtle matte finish to it.

Yes, I often dive head first into historic images with much stranger back stories where the more you know about it, the more layers of skin the onion has. This one has less bar story and more slap-a-grin-on-yer-face, and this tough and cynical world can always use a cuppa that.

• Handmade item
• Materials: Art stock enhanced matte paper, archival ink
• Made to order
• Only ships within United States.

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A NOTE ON OUR PROCESS, OUR CHOICES AND THE QUALITY OF THE GRAPHIC CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT GOES INTO OUR PRINTS.

Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps. The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands. That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here. See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”

There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.

There is the heady promise of a further hunt just as real as what drags a weekend fisherman out of bed at 3AM to work a favorite brook as we start our research, looking for that great backstory, and both ready and willing to tumble down as many rabbit holes as are revealed to us to get that story.

Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road. I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle! So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.

This dedication and the ongoing rush of joy in the accomplishment of it, and the opportunity to share the results in our studio and here on Etsy, is the fire of passion that keeps these engines roaring. We make every effort to ensure our customers are not just satisfied but thrilled, and we happily stand 100% behind our work.