Mike,
Great job in finding and describing these old gloves. I enjoy your commentary on them. By the way I was the one who ended up buying the cool tri-color (black glove, brown thumb and cream piping and web and liner) old time full sewn web Reach glove with the funky spider/diamond cut web a few weeks ago. It may be a period alteration by someone but I have not ruled out it being a die-cut stamped out web either. Either way, it sits on the top shelf of the glove loft with some other cool funky webs.
You were right on with your description that it turned out to be a nice high quality glove. It reminds me of some of the youth webs that have the die-cut spider web stamped into the web, but this one is a large 10 1/8 by 9 inch glove and very nice leather. I have seen about 3 adult size spider webs that were die-cut. Rob Mucha has one that I think is a Ken=Wel and mine is an adult Tryon glove and I think Bret Lowman has an adult spider web too and I forgot the brand.
This old Reach glove may very well have been cut out by an individual and if so they did a very nice job on the cutting and if that be the case it sure looks to be a period alteration on the web. I would love to find an old catalog that talked about or showed pics of these old spider web gloves or any die-cut webs even the youth die-cut webs. If you run across a catalog pic sometime or patent, please share the pic with me, as I would love to see it.
Dave