"Glove" Brand Rubbers, c. 1900 Crate-Side-Cum-Sign with Warm Patina fraktur marriage certificate which likely once held a

which likely once held a photograph

but I don't know that for sure--perhaps she was anticipated but never arrived

not chips or cracks

taught me a bit of RCA history: the company's logo derived from a 1898 painting by Liverpool-based artist Francis Barraud showing his terrier Nipper listening to a phonograph

"Glove" Brand Rubbers, c. 1900 Crate-Side-Cum-Sign with Warm Patina fraktur marriage certificate which likely once held aToo 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