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H4448-52 Tie shoes (pair), part of Joseph Box collection, womens, silk / linen / leather / metal / paper, maker unknown, England, 1700-1710. Click to enlarge.
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Pair of tie shoes from the Joseph Box collection

This pair of silk brocade tie shoes featured in the Bethnal Green Museum Shoe Exhibition held in London, England in 1897. The shoes come 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 …

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.

H4448-52

Object Statement

Tie shoes (pair), part of Joseph Box collection, womens, silk / linen / leather / metal / paper, maker unknown, England, 1700-1710

Physical Description

Tie shoes, pair, womens, silk brocade / braid / silk / linen / leather, maker unknown, England, 1700-1710

Womens pair of straight tie shoes of white rand construction with needlepoint upcurved toes and covered Louis heels. Shoes consist of red and cream silk brocade uppers with high vandyked tongue covered by pointed latchets with small open sides and tied by modern red braid with oblique side seams all bound in red silk. Uppers decorated with silver braid trim to cover cuts to centre fronts when shoes have been enlarged after manufacture. Shoes lined with blue silk, linen and white kid and the insole is brown leather with heels covered in red Morocco.

Marks

Joseph Box collection label pasted on outsole, printed black text on paper label, 'From JOSEPH BOX, / BOOT MAKER BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT TO / H.R.H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES, / H.I.H. THE CROWN PRINCESS OF GERMANY AND / H.R.H. THE PRINCESS LOUIS OF HESSE, / 187, REGENT STREET, LONDON.Established 1808'

Numbers written in corners of label, LH top in pencil, '378', perpendicular to text,'2', perpendicular to text, RH text within circle, '52', pasted paper label on left shoe, RH top of Box label, in black ink, '131'

Short URL

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Dimensions

Height

130 mm

Width

80 mm

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