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H4448-33 Postillion boot with spur, and label, part of Joseph Box collection, mens, leather / metal / paper, maker unknown, possibly France / England, c. 1790. Click to enlarge.
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Postillion boot with spur from the Joseph Box collection

This postillion boot 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 English archaeological sites, to intact European shoes from the 1600s onwards, 'foreign' shoes collected as 'curiosities' from around the world, …

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

Parts of this object

H4448-33/1 Postillion boot with spur, part of Joseph Box collection, mens, leather / metal, maker unknown, possibly France / England, c. 1790
Postillion boot with spur from the Joseph Box collection
c. 1790
H4448-33/2 Label, for postillion boot with spur, part of Joseph Box collection, paper, maker unknown, England, date unknown
Label for postillion boot with spur from the Joseph Box collection

Summary

Object No.

H4448-33

Object Statement

Postillion boot with spur, and label, part of Joseph Box collection, mens, leather / metal / paper, maker unknown, possibly France / England, c. 1790

Physical Description

Postillion boot with spur, mens, leather / metal, and identification tag, paper, maker unknown, [France] / England, c. 1790

Mens single right straight thigh boot (postillion), [welted] construction with square domed toe over rounded square sole and stacked heel. Boot consists of black leather upper featuring a straight vamp seam at waist, rigid leg to knee with extra layer to top, all front seamed with outside right leg and front top cut higher. Spur rest stitched to the centre back and angled away from the back. The original spur leather is incomplete at the bottom with two leather straps, buckles and D buckle attached. Upper decorated with a pair of leaves between two rows of stitching and a row of stitching around the top edge, scallops and circles at the original centre of spur leather with two rows of stitching each side. Lining consists of a roll of leather at top edge of leg, probably padded. Stacked leather heel has four lifts, a slight kickup in centre and wrought nail head.

Paper tag from unknown institution, inscribed 'No 33 / One Postillion Boot / with spur & Pad / Tudor Period'

Marks

Identification tag with handwritten text in brown ink, 'No 33 / One Postillion Boot / with spur & pad / Tudor Period'

Short URL

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Dimensions

Height

618 mm

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