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Description: | printed metallic brocade, gold kid, opera style; Spanish heel covered in brocade, D shaped leather tip; leather sole with rounded toe continuing down front of heel; vamp with open toe, outside of foot of brocade, inside of foot of gold kid cut with elongated triangles at sole, edge overlapping brocade cut with slants and cut ins as if the kid was five strips of leather with sloped ends rather than one piece; machine stitching close to cut edges and overlapping edge; heel of two pieces brocade, centre back seam, stitched each side; narrow brocade strap with pointed end
lining; leather throughout, insole where visible, edged with gold painted canvas
fastening: strap (see above) with three holes, brass waisted buckle with one prong
label: in silver on sock ‘Made in England, Manfield & Sons Ltd, Northampton, England’
marks: printed in blue on heel lining: ‘260 B M1862’, repeated on vamp with ‘F/W1Z474’ and ‘9473[?]’ last number missing’ ‘260’ on sole, Worn by donor's aunt Jessica Webber (b.1911) of 3 Kings Ford Ave, Radford, Nottingham. She worked at Richard Peake, Gamble Street from 1943 to 1971.
Accession number: NCMG 2005-173 | Subjects: | costume (women's) | Temporal: | 1935-1940 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | Nottingham | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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