One of the new catalogs and one which I'd not seen before was the H. H. Kiffe Company of New York for 1906. This has the usual gloves and mitts one sees in this era catalogs EXCEPT there is, what appears to be a "Buck Ewing" stamped mitt. If, as the illustration depicts, it is a mitt with the named stamped in the leather, this has to be one of the earliest I've discovered. Previously I recall a catalog from late 1900s to 1905 era having a "Jones" endorsed mitt, but it appeared that that mitt had a hang tag with his endorsement and the leather was not stamped with his name.
Ewing was considered by many as the finest player of the 19th century, and he was voted into the Hall of Fame in 1939. I found this odd that this Kiffe catalog was put out with his catchers mitt the year he died of diabetes in 1906 at age 47.
