It’s coming home, it’s coming home, well possibly not the football connection but the Trustees have brought Queen Victoria’s gloves home.
The Queen Victoria Collection
Trustee Rosemary Harden had spotted that a collection of gloves, (a pair of light brown suede elbow-length mitts; a pair black mitts; two pairs of chenille gloves, one taupe, one brown; a pair of brown wool gloves, a square white cardboard box with trim and crest in gold, cross and three crowns on the inside cover), which belonged to Queen Victoria, were coming up for auction in Philadelphia in April 2018. This was a sale of a huge collection of historic dress that belonged to a collector called Helen Larson. Helen Larson bought many of her pieces from Doris Langley Moore who in turn bought the items from a Niece of Mrs Toogood, one of the Queen’s dressers, this was our Provenance.
One of our stated aims is to collect gloves associated with Royalty: other than the replica Coronation glove (which is different to the other Coronation gloves in that it was not made at the time), we had nothing associated with Queen Victoria.
Doris Langley Moore was the founder of the Fashion Museum in Bath, another reason for our wanting to buy theses gloves.
The cost was just over £1800, and whilst the guide price in the Catalogue was $200-$300, we were more than delighted to obtain these gloves at this figure as we consider them an important acquisition for our Collection.
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