"Glove" Brand Rubbers, c. 1900 Crate-Side-Cum-Sign with Warm Patina fraktur marriage certificate dressed in gendered garments woven

dressed in gendered garments woven to size

and the hands

but I don't know that for sure--perhaps she was anticipated but never arrived

I love the wonderfully graphic treatment of the birds

A bit of a challenge to photograph

"Glove" Brand Rubbers, c. 1900 Crate-Side-Cum-Sign with Warm Patina fraktur marriage certificate dressed in gendered garments wovenToo 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