If you were going to purchase a vintage glove for recreational use / fun, would you go with no welt on the back of the fingers or single welt? Trying to think through if that really would make a difference from a structural strength perspective, and I have zero experience with early 1900’s style gloves.
Obscure question of the day - vintage gloves
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I think it needs to be cleared about the use of the word "vintage" here.
I would consider a vintage glove to be from the '60s-'80s and I think by that point most had welting on the fingers.
An antique glove, from the '50s or earlier, is typified by split fingers and small webs - they rarely have any welting at all, usually just straight sewn together.
Shoeless Joe and Akadema make authentic reproductions of some of these models - I would suggest checking those out unless you can find a good-condition period piece at an antique store or a well presented glove on eBay.
I would consider a vintage glove to be from the '60s-'80s and I think by that point most had welting on the fingers.
An antique glove, from the '50s or earlier, is typified by split fingers and small webs - they rarely have any welting at all, usually just straight sewn together.
Shoeless Joe and Akadema make authentic reproductions of some of these models - I would suggest checking those out unless you can find a good-condition period piece at an antique store or a well presented glove on eBay.
That is super cool. I picked up a shoeless joe 1956. It’s a weird kind of stiff. I’ll post a pic once I get it formed.