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Title: Royal and historic gloves and shoes
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Redfern, William Beales
Subjects: Gloves Footwear
Publisher: London : Methuen & Co.
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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sole are given. No. 2PAIR of wooden-soled shoes; the uppers are composed ofleather covered with brown felt, over which is a wide bandof blue cashmere. Nos. 3 and 4 WOODEN chopines, or clogs, 8 inches high, worn by Turkishwomen ; they are thickly inlaid with mother-of-pearl andsilver wire and have bands of leather, which form a kindof sandal; these are covered with puce cloth richly embroideredwith gold thread. As previously mentioned, chopines are of Eastern origin, andearly in the seventeenth century were in use among the ladies ofVenice, and eventually found their way into France and, to a smallextent, into England. In the collection of the Author. No. 5 A PAIR of Turkish ladys slippers of green leather. The innersoles have small panels of leather work resembling mosaics.The under soles are of two thicknesses of brown leather,and the heels, unusual in oriental slippers, are formed of loops ofiron. Their total length is 9 inches. The property of A. Clark-Kennedy, Esqr. PLATL \ \ (I)
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