1940s VTG Rawlings St. Louis Martin Marion Floating Heel  Pro Baseball Glove#403

Description

1940s VTG Rawlings St. Louis Martin Marion Floating Heel  Pro Baseball Glove#403
A RAWLINGS St. Louis, Martin
Marion
signature Fielder’s Glove made from 1940s-1950 timeframe. Designed in collaboration with with Marty Martin, star infielder of the St. Louis Cardinals.
A medium sized Professional Model  glove.  Entire glove leather lined. All seams leather welted, with roll leather bung edges, laced heel & brad wrist strap. Adjustable solid ball trap.
MARKINGS: OUTSIDE
-Red & Black
Rawlings
logo script,
ST. LOUIS
label sewn on the wrist strap.
-Rawlings sheild metal brad Wrist strap button
-A five fingers of glove with no laces between the fingers
(a characteristic
of 1940s gloves)
MARKINGS: INSIDE
Markings on the inside are fainton this well used glove but I can see several markings that helped to ID this glove:
- On the little finger I can see part of a Martin Marion signature (
Marion
)
- above that is PROFESSIONAL ( of Professional Model?) in cap letters.
- Below the Martin Marion signature is "Floating Heel”
Condition of the glove is over all good, just well used. It could use a good cleaning by someone who is experienced at cleaning old leather gloves.
The rolled leather bung edges on the wrist band and heel lacing has worn away.
I can see the wrist band was sewn back on with white thread long ago and one of the web bottom laces may have been an early replacement.
I could find few Rawlings St. Louis Martin Marion gloves like this one with a laced heel, fingers that were not sewn together & the label seam so close to wrist strap attachment. A later well known G600 model has different features. So I believe this model was made earlier 1940s during WW2.
This glove came from a household of 56+ years. I was my father-in-law’s from the 1940s and his sons used it  in the 50s-60s.
We’d like to find a good home for this with someone who would appreciate it.
Questions welcome.
_gsrx_vers_1292 (GS 8.3.6 (1292))