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Gloves

Clothing/Dress/Costume

One pair of hand-knitted fine white cotton gloves with beaded floral decorations stitched on the back of the hands. Fancy double shell stitched border or cuff. The little finger is knitted to overlap the next one. Little gussets between the fingers. The left hand is a bit larger than the right hand. The 'points' are 3 bowls containing tall floral branches, the center one with pink flowers and the outer ones, blue. Bead colors are opaque pink and transparent pine green, cobalt and amber.

G2011.026ab

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Gloves

Historic Costume

Accessory

Gloves

Unisex

Cotton

Beads

White

1836

Inscription

On the backs of both gloves

AM / 1836

English

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