Boxing glove
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather, textile, string and horsehair
Measurements
200 mm (L)
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Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937322.1
Summary
One of a pair of tan leather boxing gloves with black and gold label: FRANK BRYAN'S REGISTERED / CHAMPION / LONDON. With brown textile tape at the wrists, strung palms and stuffed with horsehair (one of the gloves has a split in the seam).
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).