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Isshinryu101

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Incidentally, is this the Pecard product you guys like?: Pecard Antique Leather Dressing

I've been using Lexol, but I see so many references to Pecard's, I'd like to try it on these.

Pecards is excellent for vintage shoes & a necessity when the leather & finish has become dry. It takes some time for the conditioner to penetrate because it is petroleum jelly based, but they have saved quite a few pairs of 60+ years old shoes. Thanks, Cookie!
 

Isshinryu101

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Probably the most INSANE Spectators I've ever handled (thanks, Cookie). NOS 1920's by Atlas.

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Great score. The true handmades have a hatched effect on the soles and hand made written on them as well as being hand sewn. Those need some conditioner BTW. I suspect those are 1980s too and NOS to boot.

It seems there may be hand mades without the cross hatching on my 1990s pair.

http://uptowndandy.blogspot.com/search?q=handmades

Here is an interesting link to a pair like yours. The details are wrong (re pre-War) with that heel detail IMO but I had a pair which did have that heel from the 50s/60s.

http://www.classicshoesformen.com/s...nston-murphy-5-eyelet-full-brogue-oxford-415d
 
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Tomasso

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I want to love them but I'm getting a huge Stacy Adams vibe that is overpowering the quality make. I think it's the open lacing.

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cookie

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Stacey vibe?...that's a low blow. They came from a store in Brittany France called "Le Chat Noir" which closed in 1940! Don't ask me where they resided from 1940 - 2008 but after some Pecards they have found new life in (of all places) Australia.

Incidentally, is this the Pecard product you guys like?: Pecard Antique Leather Dressing

I've been using Lexol, but I see so many references to Pecard's, I'd like to try it on these.


Lexol? Forgedddabboudditt! Use Pecards.
 
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esteban68

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Here's one of the 'charity shop three' I obtained a week or so ago; first up the BALLY c1980's? brown loafers, not every bodies cup of tea but I think they'll go great with a cream linen suit on a mediteranean night or two next year?
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very nicely made with leather soles uppers and inners.

Next up the secomd pair of BALLY a monk strap shoe in a rich dark red brown,
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esteban68

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and the last of the three, a pair of Russell Bromley evening shoe, the grained leather is butter soft so they're great for dancing in!
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The mark on the left to is where some drunken Heifer stumbled across the dance floor and over my toe before falling over a table at the first row of diner seating!
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Tomasso

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Had a similar situation years ago with a pair of Ferragamo burgundy cap toes. Girl drilled the cap with her stiletto heel and left a dent that bugged me so much that they became my rain/snow shoes.
 

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