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Despite the production of Pinkham gloves ending in 1966 stories, information and best of all Pinkham gloves continue to surface in all sorts of places. Each month these ‘finds’ and other related stories are shared with visitors to the website.

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Timeless of course

August 2024   Another very unusual pair of Pinkham gloves, this time from the 1950s has found its way to Read more

Ungloved cheat

July 2024 Of its time, this is an interesting postcard topic Read more

From RAF to BSA

June 2024 One of the finds of the year is this pair of Pinkham silk glove liners which belonged to Gordon L. Bartlett (1933 Read more

Enough to make any girl feel a million dollars

MAY 2024 Seen here is another stunning pair of Pinkham gloves which have been given to the collection by Lynn Jamieson of Timeless Gloves. Dating Read more

It's been booked........

APRIL 2024     ...it was bound to happen and doesn't leave a plot to be desired. The Story of Read more

When I think of love as something new........

MARCH 2024 This delightful card was discovered at the Victoria & Albert Museum and epitomises the romance of gloves. A sentiment that Read more

Swinging Sixties

FEBRUARY 2024 This stunning pair of Pinkham gloves are quintessentially sixties and were found on a period costume clothing stall at the Twinwood Read more

The 'Get-Away' van

JANUARY 2024 Seen here outside the Witham factory which had been built in 1912 is an Engecie delivery van.  The company at Read more

Happy New Year - Let's hope that 2024 is a great year for everyone

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Have a Merry Christmas

DECEMBER 2023 If you need inspiration for this year's Christmas card look no further. Thought to date from around 1877 Read more

A fan and his dog

NOVEMBER 2023 Laurette Laman Trip from Leiden in The Netherlands has an eagle eye that saw the image on a fan in Read more

Never mind the width feel the quality

OCTOBER 2023 This interesting pair of Pinkham gloves turned up recently in Cambridge. What is so interesting is the cream card label attached Read more

A touch of elegance

SEPTEMBER 2023 The saying coined by Leslie Pinkham in a 1950s advert A touch of Elegance could not be better exemplified than by this Read more

The age of chivalry

AUGUST 2023 Captured on this postcard is the era when kind behaviour, especially by men towards women was not unusual. Read more

Start spreading the news

JULY 2023   Not vagabond shoes but Pinkham Gloves in these 1955/6 adverts from the New Yorker Magazine. The mid 1950s was one of Read more

Rings and things and buttons and bows

JUNE 2023 ...well bows at least. This fabulous pair of Pinkham gloves in black Helanca with cream bows is surely the company's manufacturing at Read more

The Coronation of King Charles III

MAY 6th 2023 "When all at once I saw a crowd with hands adorned in gloves, O that I were Read more

Fashion beyond gloves

MAY 2023 This Pinkham blouse made in the early 1960s turned up in a charity shop in Huddersfield and then laid in Read more

The lost glove - we've all done it

APRIL 2023 This delightful cartoon titled The Lost Glove from the February 1932 edition of Punch Magazine must resonate with many people. There's a Read more

Tatler talk

MARCH 2023 Recently discovered this advert from November 1956 sees Pinkham gloves, not for the first and not for the last time Read more

War effort

FEBRUARY 2023 Glamour was not in the designer's brief for this pair of Pinkham gloves. They show just how diverse the company Read more

Quality that's obvious

JANUARY 2023 Another year and another stunning pair of Pinkham gloves has been discovered by a great friend of the Read more

South Wales and Pinkham gloves at their best

DECEMBER 2022 This stunning pair of black Nylon Pinkham gloves came to the collection from the Gingells in South Wales. Anne and Loulou Gingell realised immediately Read more

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 Read more

A Velvet hand in a velvet glove

8th SEPTEMBER 2022 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll1926 - 2022 Long live the King Read more

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 Read more

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 at Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more

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, Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more

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 Read more

Ruched all round

NOVEMBER 2021 East Sussex is where this unusual pair of white nylon Pinkham gloves were recently found.What makes them interesting is the Read more

New finds

NOVEMBER 2021 Two pairs of Pinkham gloves from Timelessgloves on the South Coast have just found their way to the Pinkham Collection. One black Read more

Fit for a Queen

MAY 2021 At the Queen's coronation in 1953 each of the lady guests were given a glove clip with an Read more

Wedding bells

JANUARY 2021 Sylvia Clark made contact and recalled the story of her mother Sylvia Iren Clark (née Lloyd) who worked at the Dagenham factory Read more

In the beginning

AUGUST 2016 This article from The Braintree and Witham Times of August 4th 2016 is how the whole idea of a legacy Read more

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