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Historic Costume | Fine and Decorative Arts

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Glove

Object/Artifact

1. White hinged glove box discreetly trimmed with gold band, white paper dust leaves and lavender tissue lining.2. Pair of white kid gloves, wrist length. Black chain stitched double points; 2 rows black or brown piping, pinked scallops on top edge. Small brass catch with 2 loops. Incompletely legible brand stamp inside right one: “gant. Josephine --- ROU---- --oilles Paris - Lunures[?]” and another one virtually invisible. In the other: “7 11 and 4 9-”"

G2005.014.1-2

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

1868

gloves

kid leather

piping

chain stitched

scalloped

Sawyer, Elizabeth Ryce

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