Show us your SHOES !!!

[HarpPlayerGene]

Also picked up this no-name pair of vintage black bluchers. Simple, and with the rounder more work shoe shape, paired with some cuffed up Levis, they suit my occasional Rockabilly-ish mood.
You should've seen 'em when I got 'em. Looked destroyed - but cleaned and shined up well.

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

AND, another vintage pair of Wright's Arch Preservers. I love old Wright shoes. I've got four pair now. Really well made.

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

These I'll be offering up for sale:

 

[Warbaby]

Not a pair of shoes, but a nifty punch-card certificate that I found in a box of my grandfather's old papers. Don't know the exact date, but the other papers in the box were from around 1900 thru the early 1920s.

I've enlarged the image so you can read the details - the size of the original is 2.25" x 4.5".

151 styles for $3.50 a pair PLUS a certificate for 50 free shines - now that's a deal! I'm wondering if a shoe store giving a certificate for 50 (!) free shines might be an indication of the care people once gave their shoes and how often they might have had them shined.

 

[cptjeff]

Thanks for showin' 'em to us, Stoneface!

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Thrifted some odd ones lately, but I like 'em.

Vintage JC Penny's in 9-1/2 B. Perfect fit for me! Very nice leather. Not sure what to call it though. Calf? Cordovan? It has a slight pebble but a high-shine toe. Ideas/Info anyone?

Scotch grain. It's calf that's tanned by soaking it in, you guessed it, scotch. If it's real scotch grain. Sometimes pebble effects are pressed into leathers to make it look like scotch grain and cover defects. If it's really nice, probably real.

As far as I know, scotch grain is the only way you can get pebbling without pressing the pattern into corrected grain leather.

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

Wow, thanks, cptjeff! I've seen the pressed grain jobs - this is something much nicer so it must be what you described. Very good info.

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

Check this out.

Someone of the same last name as me who is doing genealogical research emailed this information to me:

The name is said to derive from the latin Crispin meaning curly head.. and in fact Crispin was a noble family in Rome.. and then fell out of favor.. at least two brothers Crispin and Crispianus.. and they settled in Soissons France, making shoes and preaching.. and so their death's were preceded by miracles according to the Catholic Church.. and thus made the tradition of St Crispin's Day.. and they became the patron saints of shoemakers.

So THAT explains it! lol

 

[cookie]

Check this out.

Someone of the same last name as me who is doing genealogical research emailed this information to me:

The name is said to derive from the latin Crispin meaning curly head.. and in fact Crispin was a noble family in Rome.. and then fell out of favor.. at least two brothers Crispin and Crispianus.. and they settled in Soissons France, making shoes and preaching.. and so their death's were preceded by miracles according to the Catholic Church.. and thus made the tradition of St Crispin's Day.. and they became the patron saints of shoemakers.

So THAT explains it! lol

Yeah but you don't make 'em ...you flog 'em!


Here are your kin at work back in da old country...http://saintcrispins.com/

American shoes at their best waisted insteps...only found on the top bespoke UK shoes now.

 

[Dreispitz]

Balmoral Boots of the future!

Not really vintage. The contrary, rather! Leather uppers of the soon to become my new boots.

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

Yeah but you don't make 'em ...you flog 'em!

Yeah, but I've got the 'saintly' bit down pat.

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

Leather uppers of the soon to become my new boots.

Thanks for the peek, 'spitz. Keep us posted as they develop!

 

[rlk]

Johnston & Murphy Aristocraft

Any guesses for vintage?

 

[davestlouis]

harpplayergene, I scored some JC Penney Classics that are the same sort of leather as yours, same color too, but longwings...$4 at Goodwill. Mine have the O'Sullivan heels too. One toe box on mine is crushed, but it isn;t obvious unless you push on it, it looks normal and holds its shape in wearing and normal use.

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

Any guesses for vintage?

Hmmmm.... I'm takin' a wild stab at mid-'70s on those. There was still some high quality production in that era and these look like they are well-made for sure. The graphics inside and the heel design say '70s to me. [huh]

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

harpplayergene, I scored some JC Penney Classics that are the same sort of leather as yours...

Amazing, isnt' it, that a store brand product could be of such high quality decades ago? I know they probably had Freeman or someone like that make them, but still. Top-of-the-line big name branded shoes of present manufacture do not come close to how well-crafted some of these 'ordinary' shoes were back then.

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

$6 for these Florsheims. Good fit with these too and I'm lovin' the color!

 

[Tomasso]

I propose that Gene be banned from posting his gets on this thread as they're making me sick. Who's with me?

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

 

[sproily]

I propose that Gene be banned from posting his gets on this thread as they're making me sick. Who's with me?

:arated:

 

[davestlouis]

ditto