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Are these shoes shell cordovan?

Njd89

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Shell or not shell?
 

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Mr G from SD

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Shell or not shell?

I found the listing on ebay, could tell those are listing photos.
Hope I’m not bearing bad news to you if you bought them, but they aren’t shell. Allen Edmonds has used a burgundy corrected grain leather that easily fools people in photos (Especially if still new and haven’t creased yet).

This used to happen to me often where I couldn’t tell in photos until I actually bought a new pair of shell shoes and got used to how they break in/roll instead of crease.
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