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Pack up your troubles……

OCTOBER 2022 Not so much Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag but Pack up your Sunday best gloves in this wonderful...

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A Velvet hand in a velvet glove

8th SEPTEMBER 2022 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll 1926 - 2022 Long live the King

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The Hostess with the mostess

AUGUST 2022 These stunning Pinkham gloves from the 1960s were found at the McCord Museum. 690, Sherbrooke Street West,  Montreal...

July 2022 webbed gloves

In the swim of things

JULY 2022 Nothing new in webbed swimming gloves and these go back to the days of Flapper Girls. Also used...

Glove powderer 1

Under pressure

JULY 2022 This charming and unusual boxwood glove powderer was found in John Gilbert’s antique shop in Robin Hood’s Bay near Whitby. Whilst on the...

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Lorry for sale

JULY 2022 This photograph was taken in the 1950s on the forecourt of Hurrell & Beardwell’s  garage on the corner of Avenue...

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My old china

APRIL 2022 For many years in the board room at the Witham factory there were two ash trays modelled as china gloves,...

Elecat of gloves

A timeless elicat of Pinkham gloves

FEBRUARY 2022 Once again Lynn Jamieson of Timeless Gloves in West Sussex has discovered a fine elicat of Pinkham gloves which have found their...

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Timeless in more ways than one

JANUARY 2022 These two pairs of Pinkham gloves were given to the Pinkham Collection by Lynn Jamieson of Timeless Gloves in West Sussex. An established dealer...

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Another masterpiece

NOVEMBER 2021 Recent research in The British Newspaper Archive has thrown up a wealth of Pinkham material which includes these two adverts from...