King Lacing

[rosajr]

I have a question about the King lacing....I know whenever this is talked about the pictures come up with the lacing around the entire hand opening on the glove, but looking at the early Reach catalogs they never show it. They talk about he lacing allowing you to modify the padding. Now, here is the question, I have an early reach glove that I believe was white, the condition now is a very light grey, I believe it to be a top of the line model with rolled leather piping and has lacing, but only at the heel. Is it possible that the original King lacing was at the heel only or is my glove not as early as I think. The Reach tag has only one circle around the keystone instead of 2. The catalog I'm referring to is the 1914 catalog. Let me know your thoughts

Jim

[mikesglove]

1910 patent by Charles King

from a 1912 Spalding catalog

My own Spalding BB1 below. As far as I know the "King Patent" referred to a method of removing and replacing an entire inner lining so the top of the wrist is laced and not sewn. Some of the ads state that the inner padding can be adjusted or added by undoing only the heel lacing of the glove