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Glacé kid leather, about 1910-15
Accession number 1967.187.225
Pair of dark brown glacé kid leather shoes, with pointed toes and kid-covered Louis heels. Fastening across instep with strap and button. Decorated across vamps and ankle straps with applied cut steel and bronze beads, the steel beads now rusting and turning brown. Insoles of pale blue silk satin. Stamped:
"The Imperial, Regd. No 48340"