Glove ‘gauntlet’ sold for £5500 by Christie’s.
One curiosity from a book and manuscript sale held by Christie’s (25/20/13.5% buyer’s premium) on July 10, this kid glove or gauntlet represents the final challenge to trial by battle in English legal history.
In the year 1817, when he was accused by William Ashford of the murder of his sister, it was used by Abraham Thornton to exercise the medieval right to a ‘wager of battle’.