Show Some Remarkable Gloves In the reign of Queen Elizabeth the eccentricities of fashion were conspicuous con-spicuous in the matter of gloves Edward Ed-ward de Vere earl of Oxford who was a very prominent man of fashion about court arrived one day from Italy and captivated the virgin queen and her fair ladies with specimens of gloves some embroidered with gold some scented with sweet perfume and others trimmed with roses of colored silk The queen took such pleasure in these gloves that she was pictured with i I them on her nands in all the glory of I I regal state and to the scent she gave gve the name of the earl of Oxford perfume I fume At the sale of the earl of I Arrans effects In 1759 some historic gloves were brought under the hammer ham-mer and they realized remarkable prices A pair given by Henry VHI I to Sir Anthony Denny were sold for i3 a pair given by James I to Edward Ed-ward Denny f2 and the mittens given by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Edward Ed-ward Dennys lady f25 These gloves i which are still preserved in the Denny family must be about the eldest specimens World speci-mens of handgear extant New York 0 c |