Date Made or Date Range:
1820s or first two decades of 19th century (1800s to 1820s)
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Materials
Smoked home tanned hide; red Stroud; metal; cotton canvas.
Techniques or Format
Cuffs are lighter and thinner than sole. Leather to leather sewn with sinew, but textiles sewn with cotton/linen thread. Metal rolls flattened onto thongs, welt sewn.
Other Notes
Pucker toe with red stroud vamps and ankle tall cuffs with half center seam.
Dimensions:
0 × 0 × 0 mm
Condition:
Poor quality leather noted on cuff and laces/things. Thong used as welt is also poorly cut. Thongs used to attach flattened metal rolls are uneven in length, as well as cut and treatment. Some are fine and twisted wile some are wide and thick. Metal is unusually thin, with some uneven or irregular oxidation patterns suggestive of a mixed alloy or surface treatment of metal prior to repurposing as flattened rolls.
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