Child's Boxing Gloves

Title: Child's Boxing Gloves
Subject: Protective Equipment—Gloves
Description: Pair of child's boxing gloves with thick horsehair padding on the back of the hand and soft leather palm. Imprinted silver manufacturer's mark on both gloves's cuff reads "JC Higgins" (cursive) inside a circle with "Sears, Roebuck and Co." (print) along the inside edge of the bottom hemisphere's. "1415" written in large size below the mark.
Creator: JC Higgins
Publisher: Fencing Arms & Artifacts
Contributor: Sears, Roebuck and Co. (Distributor)
Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0
Extent: Leather, horsehair padding, laces. When flat: 8" total length and 5.75" total width (including thumb). Gloves 3.75" width at palm. Weight of 120 grams each.
Type: Fencing glove
Identifier: 2019.01.006
Provenance: Loaned for digitization by Peter Nelson; Digitized by Benjamin Bowles; Cataloged by Benjamin Bowles