"Glove" Brand Rubbers, c. 1900 Crate-Side-Cum-Sign with Warm Patina carved ball on chain Sixth plate ambro

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with hand-dyed fabric swatches representing progressions from blue and violet to ochre/yellow-green on scales that slide to allow for a user to make their closest match

Large cards measure 2 7/8" x 2"

and clearly their good design sense carried through to their signage

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 Sixth plate ambroToo 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