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Annie Oakley's Leather Gauntlets,

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Annie Oakley's Leather Gauntlets,
Annie Oakley's Leather Gauntlets,<p>reportedly given by her to Jimmy Robinson at the Amateur Trapshooting Association meetings at Vandalia, Ohio in August of 1925. Women's fringed leather gloves, with old typed label attached with wire tag. Robinson was a trap shooter, hunter, outdoor writer for Sports Afield, and longtime friend of Annie's. The gloves from his estate, which included one of her guns and well as photographs. A similar pair belonging to Oakley is illustrated in Wilson and Martin "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" 1998:135).<p>Fine, save for expected wear, and pin-holes for wire holding the gloves together.