Pair of man’s gloves

Pair of man’s gloves, 18th century? Origin unknown. GB-London, Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, Invertebrates I (Mollusca) Inventory: T12915 (MS Inventory 14)

Men’s glove, detail

Text about the gloves made of sea silk in the Natural History Museum London

Pair of man’s gloves, 18th century? Origin unknown. GB-London, Natural History Museum, Department of Zoology, Invertebrates I (Mollusca) Inventory: T12915 (MS Inventory 14).

Sea silk, plain right knit, short, with fingers.

Presumably these are the gloves Way described in her 1994 book about Sir Hans Sloane, the founder of the British Museum: “A pair of man’s gloves made of the beard of the pinna marina in Andalousia in Spaine [sic!] sent me by His Grace the Duke of Richmond”. In Appendix 2 Way lists under the codicil 10 July 1749 the visitors of the collection “... appointed to the Will of Sir Hans Sloane, among them His Grace Charles, Duke of Richmond (deceased – codicil 18 September 1750).”

In 2000, these gloves were exhibited in the Gallery of Marine Invertebrates at the Natural History Museum London.

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Sources:
Way 1994, McKinley 1998