Glove
Category
Leatherwork
Date
1850 - 1900
Materials
Kid, Walnut shell
Place of origin
Limerick
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1350021.1
Summary
One of a pair of gloves made from very fine kid. The gloves are made for the skin of an un-born animal, in this case, a goat skin. The leather is alum tawed and exceptionally thin. They were made to fit either side of a walnut shell. Charles Wade writes 'Of the finest softest leather. In accordance with an old custom such gloves contained in a walnut shell were deposited in the church of Kilhampton, nr. Bude, Cornwall by the bridegroom whose fiancee died before his wedding'. These gloves were made in Limerick. They are contained in a decorated box with the date 1874 inside.
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade