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Gloves

Clothing/Dress/Costume

One pairof hand knit fine white cotton gloves with beaded floral decorations worked on the back of the hand; fancy single shell stitched border or cuff. The little finger is worked to overlap the next one. Little gussets between the fingers. This is the largest pair in the set of 3. The backs have a large pink rose with foliage and smaller flowers. Beneath the cuff is a beaded border of a vine with sky blue flowers. A border surrounds the thumb seam, made of bands of the different colors of beads. Other bead colors are opaque pink, transparent pine green and amber.

G2011.028ab

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Gloves

Historic Costume

Accessory

Gloves

Unisex

Cotton

Beads

White

circa 1838

On backs of both gloves

AM / 1838

English

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