Jimmy Langford
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Does anyone else here keep pieces of old shoes they find? I’m a sucker for Edwardian era shoes, even if it’s just the heel of one. I think they are great artifacts
Have you ever found the metal “lasts” for the cobbler stands? I have found 2 on my own property, which is infamous for 1930s-1980s era junk.At times we dig hundreds of them in trash pits and privies...I always figure when we see that volume of them that a cobbler/shoemaker much have lived there.
I used to find them (pieces) quite frequently back when I was digging. I never kept any, though had I found mostly-intact loggers' calk boots I might have. The shoes I always hoped to find, but never did, would have been ox shoes. Logs were skidded along trails of notched cross-logs known as skid roads, which term was later corrupted into "skid row" to mean the poor, run-down part of town during the early days of Pacific Northwest Logging. Horses were also used for skidding and many other purposes, and I certainly kept some of those shoes, particularly if they were large enough to indicate they came from draft animals. However, teams of yoked oxen were the iconic log skidders before the steam donkey yarder entered the woods.Does anyone else here keep pieces of old shoes they find? I’m a sucker for Edwardian era shoes, even if it’s just the heel of one. I think they are great artifacts
I have always found them interesting. When I find them I put them aside, and think I'll post little work there good to go, just never did it.Does anyone else here keep pieces of old shoes they find? I’m a sucker for Edwardian era shoes, even if it’s just the heel of one. I think they are great artifacts
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