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H4448-37 Shoe vamp fragment, part of Joseph Box collection, adults, leather, maker unknown, England, 1580-1599. Click to enlarge.
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Shoe vamp fragment from the Joseph Box collection

This vamp from an adult shoe was probably found in excavations in London and may have featured in the Bethnal Green Museum Shoe Exhibition held in London, England in 1897. The vamp 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 …

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

Summary

Object No.

H4448-37

Object Statement

Shoe vamp fragment, part of Joseph Box collection, adults, leather, maker unknown, England, 1580-1599

Physical Description

Adults single shoe vamp, [turnshoe] construction with narrow puckered toe gathered onto blunt pointed sole. Vamp has butted side seams onto missing quarters and is decorated with oblique slashing, zig zag slits, impressed lines and a band of squiggles. Throat features whip stitching for binding or lining and big toe joint has been cut to enlarge.

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