Boot for an infant
- Accession Loan No.
- 195/1968/1
- Collection Class
- Clothing and accessories
- Common Name
- boot for an infant
- Simple Name
- boot
- Full Name
- infant’s boot
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Year Low
- 1850
- Production Year High
- 1900
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Production Continent
- Europe
- Family Group
- Material
- leather; metal
There are 2 comments
Very difficult to make. Babies don’t like wearing shoes. My grandson doesn’t like wearing shoes.
They look very old, made from a machine, not handmade. Used by a rich family who could afford it, or maybe it was a present for a baby. We can see that it was very much used because it’s quite worn and the colour’s faded. Maybe a child tried to walk on them or maybe it was passed on from one child to another.