Pair of grey, blue, and red leather ‘Kookaburra’ brand cricket batting gloves for left handed batter. Each glove has three layers of ‘sausage roll’ finger protection on top of each finger and back of the hand. Leather covered top layer with royal blue high density foam in middle. Two blue leather diamond shapes sewn into top side of little finger, two red diamonds sewn into top side of ring finger, one blue and one red diamond sewn into top of middle finger. Navy blue mesh fabric between each finger and around glove edges. White plastic square tag marked with blue outline of kookaburra sewn into back of hand below middle and ring fingers. ‘KOOKABURRA’ marked in red on rectangular plastic tag sewn into the leather across the base of the hand above wrist. Soft grey leather on palms covered with small round ventilation holes. Two round ventilation holes on underside of each finger. Double-sided towelling wrist band with elastic edges and red, white and blue stripes at edges and red and white pattern in the middle. Velcro flap with synthetic white covering attached to underside of wrist band. ‘KOOKABURRA’ and outline of kookaburra printed in blue on synthetic covering over Velcro.
[.1] Left hand glove. Six blue printed diamonds along back of index finger. Six small round hard plastic pieces are underneath the top layer for added protection. ‘BEAST’ printed in red on white plastic tag with a black border sewn onto base of index finger. Navy blue leather protective padding on outside of index finger. Thumb padded in the same way as other fingers, and has blue diamond sewn into it at top.
[.2] Right hand glove. Thumb unpadded and unmarked. Blue padded leather covering outside edge of little finger. Two blue leather diamond shapes sewn into top of index finger.
Department:
History DepartmentCollection
History Collection
Collection Item Data
| Accession Number: | H2013.266.1-2 |
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| Accession Date: | 20 May 2013 |
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Material
| Plastic/Synthetic/Polymer | 0 - Whole |
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| Foam/Synthetic/Polymer | 0 - Whole |
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Measurement
| length | 266mm | wrist to finger tip when laid flat |
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| width | 146mm | across hand when laid flat |
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| length | 265mm | wrist to finger tip when laid flat |
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| width | 126mm | across hand when laid flat |
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