Spalding Glove
 

I recently purchased this Spalding glove. There is a tag and button with "AG Spalding and Bros" on it. If anyone could give me a ballpark on the age and value I'd like to hear it. Thanks

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You have what appears to be one of the holy grails of glove collecting - a Spalding webless crescent glove, c. 1890s. If it is a true webless there would be no sign of any strip of leather ever beig present between the thumb and finger. I would like to see the spalding tag better, if it looks like what I think it does, I would put this at c.1900 - 1903. Can you post a pic of the tag?

It has some condition issues, but I would put the value of $1500 - $2000. Maybe north of that, but i am not sure of the condition issues. I could be off. There are some folks here who are true experts and can give you a better idea on value too.

Where did you get the glove?

thanks Joe. The tag is a little hard to read I just put it under a magnifying glass and the date reads 1876 0r 78 leaning towards the 6. The button is in great shape and reads A.G. SPALDING & BROS. Can't take credit for the find my wife spotted it first, down in Harrodsburg KY.

The 1876 is the founding date of the company and was on all tags during certain periods in the early 20th century. Based on the tag I would put the date as 1905, no earlier. The style also looks 1905. My problem is I am not sure Spalding made a webless crescent as late as 1905. I wonder upon closer inspection if you can see remnants of a web? If so, that would change things and put your value at $800 - 1200. Still a great glove. May I ask how much you paid?

Joe, Thanks again for all the info.There is nothing to indicate that there ever was any webbing,as far as the price don't really know it was a gift from my wife.

Vintage1011, did a little more research and found a few advertisements for crescent webless gloves from 1905 to 1910. Not Spalding, but Reach, but I believe Spalding owned Reach. They were all lower end boys/youth models. So my best guess is you don't have an 1890s webless, but rather a 1905-1910 webless crescent boys fielders model. Still a great glove and gift from your wife and Ill stick with the ~$800 value. Other glove experts may chime in with more info.

Can you post a really tight/well focused close-up shot of the inner SIDES along the thumb and forefinger? Meaning, where a web would have been attached, if there ever was one? It's best when there is no seam at all there.... but since there appears to be a seam, a really tight close-up shot will help a lot.

The dimensions of the glove would be helpful as well (width x height, in inches). With the high quality features and rolled leather piping, I am not so sure about it being a youth/kids glove. Looks to be a great find!

looking at the picture it appears to have seams in between the thumb and forefinger but need close ups to see if there was a web there

congrats
 

the wife and the glove are definitely keepers.

best,
barry

Thanks everyone for the research and info. Trying to get close-up shots that would help but not having much success. there are seams on every finger .It is roughly 9x8.The information has been most helpful I will use that and research some more. Barry, the glove for sure, the wife I've had for 34yrs. still thinking about that!

Mark, I hear what you are saying about the high quality features, and I am struggling with that too. That dimensions are also borderline. May not be youth, but from what limited I can see, webless gloves of the 1905 - 1910 period were lower end or "for boys use only". They may have had rolled piping too.

If others who have more access to glove catalogs chime in that may help. Spalding in that 1905 - 1910 period made mostly high quality gloves, and even their lower end had welting and rolled pipe. I posted this thread on the Glove Forum, but no response yet.

Looking at the posted pictures, it is definitely an adult Spalding Cresent padded fullWeb glove. I can see the seam on the index finger from the front view of the pictures and the back side picture shows the seam on the thumb. Age is from around 1905 and value on this is probably around $400 given the missing Web and it's condition.

Thanks Joel. If its a full web with a missing web, then that would solve everything - and $400 sounds right too, although I could see this going in the $600 range or possibly higher. Spalding crescents seemed to be commanding a premium, even with these conditions. I think you put that as $400 BIN on ebay it doesn't last one day. I'd buy it :)

No problem Joe! The thing that bothers me about this glove is the seam on the forefinger. If you closely examine the welting on the rest of the glove, you will see that it's very dirty, but not so on the forefinger side that is closest to the thumb. That would be evidence of a newly cut web. I could be wrong because I'm viewing this on my cell phone. no matter, it is a crescent padded glove and they are somewhat hard to come by. It is still a great find.

That's what I suspected. I still think a tight photo of the web area along the seams would help tremendously... And don't understand why posting an image is so difficult.

Until we are shown differently, I agree that it's a recently altered/removed web. :(

thanks everybody,. I have come to believe that there was a web at one time.I don't believe it was altered recently do to the look along the seams and the price it was purchased for[very very low] obviously didn't know what they had! thanks again.