Ivory kid leather gloves

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A pair of ivory leather kid gloves. Each glove extends to the upper forearm and is made from one panel of ivory kid leather that’s been wrapped around the hand/arm and sewn to itself at the outside of the arm and at the fingers. There is a gusset of leather in between each finger and a separate panel of fabric for the thumb. All the seams are machine sewn together and the insides are unlined. There is a stamp at the proper right glove interior bottom that reads [WASHABLE / FRANCE / 6 ½] in faded black text. At the bottom interior of the proper left glove is a stamp that reads [FC-1446-5 / 472] also in faded black text.There is no label.

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