I was looking through this great collection of images for inspiration for my first attempt at bootmaking and was quite excited by UK-15718 in Flat Foot Floey's post "Some french balmoral boots from the fall/winter 1933/34 catalog "Au bon marche"". In my leatherwork I like to avoid seams whenever possible, but I really wanted to start with Balmoral boots. Is the UK-15718 Brodequin a 1933/34 example of a wholecut Balmoral boot?
The catalog designates it as simply Boot rather than Balmoral, but the image looks like a wholecut Balmoral and the description translates as:
Boot, box calf
black, double leather sole, seamless, heel sewn.
Admittedly the boot does have a pull strap, but that feature does appear on Balmoral boots from other makers and the boot could still be completely seamless under the strap.
Thoughts?
And thank you for your input!
The catalog designates it as simply Boot rather than Balmoral, but the image looks like a wholecut Balmoral and the description translates as:
Boot, box calf
black, double leather sole, seamless, heel sewn.
Admittedly the boot does have a pull strap, but that feature does appear on Balmoral boots from other makers and the boot could still be completely seamless under the strap.
Thoughts?
And thank you for your input!
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