Pair of child’s leather short boots.

Collection type: Object
Description: Pair of child’s leather short boots.
Long description: Pair of child’s leather short boots. Left foot 1996.49.4. 1. Right foot 1996.49.4.2. Soles of hide stitched and nailed to the shoe. Heel of wood and rubber. Uppers of dark brown leather, machine stitched. Uppers and sole lined with cotton textile and leather. Tongue lined with felt. Dark brown shoe laces with metal ends. Holes for shoe laces have metal rivets painted dark brown on the outside [original database entry].
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England
Cultural groups: European
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Carmela Brunton; PRM source Cathi Darling
Date / Period: Date made: Circa 1920?, uncertain
Date collected: circa 1920?
Acquisition information: Donated: 05/12/1996
Materials and processes: Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Wood Plant, Material Rubber Plant, Material Felt Wool Textile Animal, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Metal, Process Nailed, Process Machine-made, Process Stitched, Process Felted
Dimensions: Length 122 mm, Length 195 mm, Height 124 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1996.49.4.1 Accession number: 1996.49.4.2
Research and responses: These boots are as likely to have been used in England as in any other part of the British Isles and I have therefore included it in the English ethnography project [AP 25/07/2006]

Search terms: Clothing Footgear, Children and Childcare, Boot, Shoe

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