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H4448-44 Shoe vamp, part of Joseph Box collection, adults, incomplete, leather, maker unknown, England, c. 1590. Click to enlarge.
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Incomplete shoe vamp from the Joseph Box collection

This incomplete shoe vamp featured in the Bethnal Green Museum Shoe Exhibition, 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 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.

H4448-44

Object Statement

Shoe vamp, part of Joseph Box collection, adults, incomplete, leather, maker unknown, England, c. 1590

Physical Description

Adult's single shoe vamp of [turnshoe] construction with impression of a rand and featuring blunt pointed toe, gathered onto the sole. Vamp features straight throat with butted seams and decorated with pinking in diamond shape and rows of slashes. Incomplete.

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