| Maker(s): | unknown
| | Culture: | American, English, or European
| | Title: | gloves
| | Date Made: | 1938-1945
| | Type: | Clothing
| | Materials: | textile: black, pile-woven silk (velvet); polychrome silk embroidery; black knitted rayon (?) finger gussets
| | Place Made: | United States, United Kingdom, or France
| | Measurements: | Center Back - CB: 10 1/2 in; 26.7 cm
| | Accession Number: | HD 2019.30.8
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Cynthia Flynt, grandaughter of Helen and Henry Flynt
| | Museum Collection: | Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Pair of black evening gloves worn by Helen Geier Flynt (1895-1986) during the late 1930s or early 1940s. Helen, along with her husband Henry N. Flynt (1893-1970) founded The Heritage Foundation, later Historic Deerfield, in 1952. The gloves are made from velvet with knitted rayon finger gussets, and embellished with green, pink (3 shades), and white floral springs embroidered in chain stitch. The gloves feature a slightly flared cuff terminating just past the wrist. English, European, or American, in origin.
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