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Topic: 184628785364: Orlan (and Sokol) glove
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SpaceAholic Member Posts: 4763 From: Sierra Vista, Arizona Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-19-2021 09:54 PM
Anybody else recall having seen this anomalous "Franken" glove previously making the rounds (and identified as such)? Listing implies the current owner did not have that information disclosed at time of purchase and was left to discover after the fact; hard to believe if true. Here some more information on this specific glove: The inner and the outer glove don't belong together. The original designer (Russian of course) of these gloves gave me the following information: - Outer glove marked: ГП-10К -ГН. This means this outer glove was made for the "hydrolab buoyancy training".
- Inner glove or pressure glove marked: ГП-7. That is an old glove for the Sokol suit, until 1986.
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 45555 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-19-2021 10:17 PM
The eBay seller (a cS member) says the glove was purchased from Artifact Cloud. Prior to that, based on the tags in the photos and this auction listing, the glove was part of a pair sold at Sotheby's in November 2018. Sotheby's lot description makes note of the inner glove(s) but does not identify the mismatch. Gloves with beta-cloth outer gauntlet, and rubber-lined inner pressure glove with anodized aluminum wrist coupling... Inner gloves with adhesive residue to fingertips, some overall wear. |
spaceflori Member Posts: 1513 From: Germany Registered: May 2000
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posted 02-07-2021 08:20 AM
The pair of gloves indeed was sold at Sotheby's in 2018 and subsequently sold and described as training gloves.Everybody familiar with the Russian space program knows that in training various combinations of hardware are used, basically what is available or "layng" around as KD Flade once jokingly confirmed to me — this includes flown spacesuits up to hardware not really matching. I strongly assume this is the case here. Several Russian cosmonauts also confirmed this, it's not unusual to have mismatching hardware used in actual training. | |
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