"Glove" Brand Rubbers, c. 1900 Crate-Side-Cum-Sign with Warm Patina baby animals very minor and not visible

very minor and not visible unless really looking for it

gorgeously executed ink and watercolor drawing

just a great set of six Jens Quistgaard for Dansk teak coasters

I've rarely met an image of a pipe I didn't like -- to me

framed by that caked color along the bottom

"Glove" Brand Rubbers, c. 1900 Crate-Side-Cum-Sign with Warm Patina baby animals very minor and not visibleToo 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