[AT] ).T. - Wanted - double thumbed corn shucker gloves & potato digger

[Chuck Bealke]

Herb,

Good luck in your search and thanks for an interesting subject. We used 
a simpler (cheaper) shucking peg or knife that fit between your thumb 
and index.  They were not so great, but we only had to pick a small 
field along a creek bottom that was more accessible to a two row corn 
planter than a tractor mounted picker.  Corn husking contests seemed 
pretty common back in the early fifties.

Boss must have made great gloves years ago. Even though it's well used, 
someone seems proud of this one:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/214684726/antique-leather-glove-industrial-corn?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_vintage-accessories-gloves-low&ione_adtype=pla&ione_creative=54864770435&ione_product_id=214684726&ione_product_partition_id=89248096355&ione_store_code=&ione_device=c&ione_product_channel=online&ione_merchant_id=101262935&ione_product_country=US&ione_product_language=en&gclid=CPjgmffztcQCFRYcaQodhagAQA

Is this what double thumb gloves are?  When one side wears out, just 
switch hands.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-Vintage-Good-Luck-DOUBLE-THUMB-Corn-Picking-Husking-Shucking-Mittens-Gloves-/371232171321?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item566f296539&nma=true&si=TuPMeLJhfM5TNRqtulVqxiAIftQ%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

  From a catalog in an age of demand for shucking gloves. Have not seen 
many things made out of mule hide:
http://blackhawkhardware.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Corn-husking-gloves1.jpg

Chuck Bealke
Dallas