"Glove" Brand Rubbers, c. 1900 Crate-Side-Cum-Sign with Warm Patina carved ball on chain and clearly their good design

and clearly their good design sense carried through to their signage

Excellent antique condition

and make for a wonderful study of variations on a form

Sixth plate ambro

but I'm pretty certain they were used as teaching tools for math many years ago

"Glove" Brand Rubbers, c. 1900 Crate-Side-Cum-Sign with Warm Patina carved ball on chain and clearly their good designToo 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