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H4448-10 Buckle shoe with buckle, part of Joseph Box collection, mens, leather / silk / copper / steel / metal, maker unknown, England, c. 1761-c.1780. Click to enlarge.
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Buckle shoe from the Joseph Box collection

This buckle shoe was probably made in 1761 for the coronation of George III, in the style imitating the previous coronation of 1728. The shoe with detachable buckle comes from an important collection of footwear and shoemaking objects thought to have been initiated by the London shoemaker, Robert Dixon Box, and consolidated by his son, Joseph Box and the Box Kingham family during the second half of the 1800s. The collection ranges from remnants of leather shoes from the Middle Ages found in …

This object is part of

H4448 Collection of shoes, boots, and buckles, part of a larger group of objects related to the art of shoemaking collected by Robert Dixon Box, Joseph Box and the Box Kingham family, various materials, various makers, England, 1500-1920
Joseph Box collection of shoes and objects related to shoemaking
1500-1920

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Buckle shoe from the Joseph Box collection
c. 1761

Summary

Object No.

H4448-10

Object Statement

Buckle shoe with buckle, part of Joseph Box collection, mens, leather / silk / copper / steel / metal, maker unknown, England, c. 1761-c.1780

Physical Description

Mens single straight buckle shoe of rand construction with forward jutting prow toe and covered Cuban heel. Upper unlined and consists of a very high tongue with white vandyked edge, red pasted over. Quarters with dog leg side seams extend into rounded strap fastened by a metal buckle with silver braid rose stitched to one side. Insole is brown leather folded over to form a toe puff and the heel is of covered red leather.

Undecorated copper buckle with two prong steel chape, is high curved and not original to shoe.

Marks

Two identification tags pasted to outsole, round paper tags with serrated edge, text handwritten in faded ink, '141 2 / 9/ dress', 'Kingham / 185 Regent (illeg. faded)'

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