Sabre Fencing Glove

Title: Sabre Fencing Glove
Subject: Protective Equipment—Gloves
Description: Sabre fencing glove padded on the back of the hand with horsehair. Horsehair padded ring covering and attached to a hard leather vambrace around the wrist. Small horsehair padded cushion in the crook of elbow on the vambrace. Strip of suede under the padded ring connects vambrace to glove. Vambrace signed in pen: "Cabral Lopez" [?].
Publisher: Fencing Arms & Artifacts
Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0
Extent: Leather, suede, horsehair, thread. Overall length 18.5 in. Vambrace 11.5 in. at longest, 6 in. at crook of elbow. Glove length approximately 7.5 in. long. Vambrace diameter at opening 5.75 in. Weight 356 grams.
Type: Fencing glove
Identifier: 2019.01.003
Provenance: Loaned for digitization by Peter Nelson; Digitized by Benjamin Bowles; Cataloged by Benjamin Bowles