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Isshinryu101

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Look at the swan neck detailing like on high end shoes. I almost could almost be looking at Edward Green shoes in the popular and classic 202 last.

Look at that leather naturally antiquing on the orangy-brown pair. Olga Berluti ain't got nuthin' on those babies. Simply breathtaking.
 

flyfishark

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WF McElwain Shoes was started in 1902 in Massachusetts. Later that same year, he opened a manufacturing facility in Manchester. By 1921, his brother, JF McElwain had sold his stock in the company & started his own. Like his brother, JF McElwain kept facilities in the UK, even as he kept his main business in New Hampshire.

Many thanks, my friend. You got Lexis??
 

Tomasso

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JF McElwain's main business was supplying Melville Shoe Corp with shoes for their Thom McAn stores. The two business eventually merged and over the years morphed into what is today the CVS drug store chain.
 

Isshinryu101

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Classic 1950's Florsheims... on the way to my Father's feet!

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flyfishark

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Issh...you are knocking me out with your shoes. Do you have cloven hooves under those socks? Did you make one of the infamous deals with "ole scratch?" You have jumped into a whole new realm of vintage shoes. (I figure that if I lay it on thick enough, you might shove a pair of those shoes in my mouth just to shut me up). Seriously, if I were the envious type, I'd be a shade of deep jade right now. Congrats again.
 

flyfishark

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A very rare hide that comes from the now endangered "Plastique Snake". He is a distant relative of the "Faux Bullfrog".

All kidding aside, Florsheim did make some very cool looking faux exotics (as well as a plethora of genuine ones).

I'm gonna start specializing in plastics...I got an eye for them
 

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