Object number
M.2014.97.2
Title
Right Hand Batting Glove by Slazenger, date unknown?
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Size
length of main part: 12.5 cm
Description
Right hand children’s batting half glove. Brown leather, padded roll protection on four digits with white diamonds on joints. Leather straps for fingers on palm. White trim. Maker’s label on palm. Player initials on label.
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Gloves
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Gloves are vitally important to protect delicate fingers from injuries that could curtail a player’s season. The artist Nicholas ‘Felix’ Wanostrocht is credited with inventing India-rubber batting gloves during the 19th century. Our earliest examples are made of individual sausages of padded leather attached to the fingers with straps or elastic. They came in adult and child sizes.
M.2014.97 Children’s Batting Glove, Slazenger, leather, 20th century.
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