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Pumps Shoes

Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

1880-1890

GUSN

GUSN-940

Description

Pumps of silver metallic fabric (tarnished); small matching silver bow, bound with white silk; long pointed toe (not sharp point); brown leather sole; heel covered with silver metallic fabric; 8 metal nails in heel; toe lined with white linen; heel lined with white kid leather; white leather inner sole.

Details

Descriptive Terms

pumps (shoes)
footwear
Women's clothing
SHOES, PUMPS

Inscription

1. Embossed in gold on inner of A & B _ ""Au Louvre/Paris"" 2. Stamped on sole of A & B - ""72""

Associated Building

Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman

Accession Number

1969.6358AB

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