"Glove" Brand Rubbers, c. 1900 Crate-Side-Cum-Sign with Warm Patina baby animals I've rarely met an image

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

with it almost looking as is he has no hand at all

to my sensibilities it's just a marvelous little object

so I am not certain of its origins

gorgeously executed ink and watercolor drawing

"Glove" Brand Rubbers, c. 1900 Crate-Side-Cum-Sign with Warm Patina baby animals I've rarely met an imageToo 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