"Glove" Brand Rubbers, c. 1900 Crate-Side-Cum-Sign with Warm Patina carved ball on chain Excellent antique condition

Excellent antique condition

Here the horizontal orientation is just right

Pretty rare to find a female version of one of these old Odd Fellows marks

Sixth plate ambro

Old rubber cement stains (not sticky) around the perimeter as evident

"Glove" Brand Rubbers, c. 1900 Crate-Side-Cum-Sign with Warm Patina carved ball on chain Excellent antique conditionToo fun to pass this one by, and of course it's hard to resist old signage graphics incorporating hand iconography, too. It also provided provides a prompt to delve into the history of rubber and "rubbers" of various sorts a long and weaving one, but with the invention of both rubber gloves and rubber condoms following on the heels of Charles Goodyear's invention of vulcanized rubber in America 1839 (patented in 1844), following which companies