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Description: | White metal gilt, copper alloy and steel key ring. A promotional key ring in the form of a naturalistically modelled shoe of length 50.6mm with the name CLINKARD stamped on its sole. The shoe is a brogue, a walking shoe with decoratively exaggerated stitching and rows of small holes punched in the outer layers of leather. Brogues were particularly favoured by golfers in the earlier 20th century, and enjoyed a renaissance as an item of fashionable footwear in the 1970s. An oval steel ring passes through the heel of the shoe and retains an oval plate with the date 1924 stamped on it. A further steel ring passes through the other end of the plate and is attached to a crimped loop with a screw-threaded milled barrel closure which rotates in a clockwise direction to permit keys to be threaded onto the loop.Clinkards remains a shoe shop based in Lincoln, and current promotional material alludes to its 90 year history. It would therefore appear that this object was made to promote the opening of the business. Suggested date: Modern, 1924.Length (overall): 120mm, Weight: 31.23gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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