Shoes Concealed in Buildings
| Autor: | June Swann |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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| Zdroj: | Costume. 30:56-69 |
| ISSN: | 1749-6306 0590-8876 |
| Popis: | With now over sixty years experience of finding worn-out shoes in unusual places, I believe my reactions may be typical of others thus confronted. First, wondering why anyone would place a pair of woman’s old shoes under the floorboards. Obviously they had no value, unless sentimental. So could they have been used for hiding cash or valuables? Hardly practical, no value, no use, set the puzzle aside. That was about 1950–51 when there were two finds on show in Northampton Museum, this pair of c.1800, and ten Tudor men’s, women’s and children’s shoes found in a walled-up cupboard by the chimney of a house on London Wall said to have escaped the Great Fire of 1665. These I dismissed as worn out and not worth packing when the family moved. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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