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

Excellent antique condition

and clearly their good design sense carried through to their signage

Large cards measure 2 7/8" x 2"

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

" then pulling up a central divider

"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