Single short glove, 19th c.

Single short glove, 19th century, Sardinia. UK-Ipswich, Ipswich Borough Council Museum (MS Inventory 36)

Single short glove, 19th century, Sardinia. UK-Ipswich, Ipswich Borough Council Museum (MS Inventory 36).

The Ipswich Journal of 27 October 1849 mentions a gift from Mrs A.H. Smyth: ”Mrs A.H. Smyth fully grown pinna nobilis from the Sardinian shore with its byssus or beard and a glove manufactured from the byssus of this species”.