"Glove" Brand Rubbers, c. 1900 Crate-Side-Cum-Sign with Warm Patina carved ball on chain and make for a wonderful

and make for a wonderful study of variations on a form

Here the horizontal orientation is just right

" then pulling up a central divider

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

and clearly their good design sense carried through to their signage

"Glove" Brand Rubbers, c. 1900 Crate-Side-Cum-Sign with Warm Patina carved ball on chain and make for a wonderfulToo 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