This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/10/2018
Tom Thumb-Owned Gloves. England: Fownes, ca. 1860s. Miniature kid gloves with metal buttons identifying them as made by Fownes, manufacturers of gloves since 1777. Provenance: Coyle’s Tom Thumb memorabilia auction, October 4, 1988. Worn but in very good condition. These gloves are specifically mentioned as an auction lot in a front-page article of The Woonsocket Call, a Rhode Island newspaper of September 25, 1988, describing an auction of Tom Thumb memorabilia from a local estate.