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H4448-38 Moccasin tie shoe with fragments (3), part of Joseph Box collection, childrens, leather, maker unknown, Ireland, 9th-10th century. Click to enlarge.
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Moccasin tie shoe from the Joseph Box collection

This moccasin tie shoe, which possibly featured in the Bethnal Green Museum Shoe Exhibition held in London in 1897, 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 …

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.

H4448-38

Object Statement

Moccasin tie shoe with fragments (3), part of Joseph Box collection, childrens, leather, maker unknown, Ireland, 9th-10th century

Physical Description

Moccasin tie shoe and fragments, child's, leather, maker unknown, Ireland, 9th-10th century

Child's fragmented single straight slip-on tie shoe of moccasin construction with thonged centre front, zig zag and knotted with knot end to one side, slotted through parallel cuts, blunt pointed toe and no heel. Shoe consists of tongued vamp with high sides and a lace slot cut parallel to the top at the front on each side with one side broken off. Leather sole features an inverted T back seam.

Loose fragments have broken off. Probably part of Shoe Exhibition at Bethnal Green Museum, London, England in 1897.

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