*EDIT- Vintage Exotics! Sea Turtle Wingtip Gunboats + Foot Joy Lizard Golf Spectators

[CaymanS]

Originally Posted by isshinryu101

Love them, friend! My uncle LOVES cowboy boots, and owns around 20 pairs of lucchese's. ALL exotics, like yours. VERY tough looking. Since I can't rock the cowboy boot, I was inspired to find some shoes in a similar style...

*paging kitonbrioni*

 

[ddaniel]

Absolutely perfect. Such a rare find! Congratulations!

 

[garymyman]

Originally Posted by isshinryu101

Since I can't rock the cowboy boot, I was inspired to find some shoes in a similar style...
Those are awesome. If I ever move out of the South I'll have to find something similar. It's amazing how wearing something crazy on your feet can open doors - during an interview for a clerkship the lawyer told me "Your resume isn't great, but with boots like that I pretty much have to hire you."

Is that Arlington?

Close! Minute Maid, taken last fall.

 

[MyOtherLife]

Originally Posted by isshinryu101

Those are stunning, simply stunning and probably one of the most incredible pair of gunboats I have ever seen. What adds even more to their beauty is the asymmetrical scaling pattern; each shoe's patterning being different. This asymmetry definitely adds to the wildness of their appearance. I am wondering how sea turtle leather is properly maintained to ensure suppleness or prevent cracking. Would it be the same as croco?

 

[SpooPoker]

Seriously, where did you get them and how much were they? Im floored by them.

 

[meister]

Originally Posted by SpooPoker

Seriously, where did you get them and how much were they? Im floored by them.

The ultimate compliment to a shoe tragic...

 

[pvrhye]

Originally Posted by garymyman

Your elusiveness on this question leads me to believe these are not vintage, but newly commissioned. Probably somewhere really shady, like North Korea - but I'm not sure they have capable cobblers.

As much as I love South Korea, it's a terrible place for shoes. I have no faith that the north could produce a pair like this. The only guy in North Korea in the market for a pair like this wears grey tracksuits all the time.

 

[Jay Gatsby]

Are these made out of that special sea turtle leather that was found in a shipwreck from 200 years ago?

 

[isshinryu101]

Originally Posted by Jay Gatsby

Are these made out of that special sea turtle leather that was found in a shipwreck from 200 years ago?
that was Reindeer leather, or "Russian Calf"

 

[Jay Gatsby]

Originally Posted by isshinryu101

that was Reindeer leather, or "Russian Calf"

That was a joke.

 

[isshinryu101]

Original Post edited to add Foot Joys.

 

[Swan Song]

Recent find, a little more refined and sleek in styling than the OP pair of Sea Turtle, yet they are more than 40 years old.
And in my size
Made in Mexico
Original sole and heel. I since have changed the armored heel to a combination leather and rubber.

 

[mathyoubacon]

Back from the dead... Sea turtle boats on ebay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/230906023852

 

[Son Of Saphir]

sorry to bump old thread but it important

The "book matching" of the hide (especially the toecaps) and lack of evidence of company label tells me these are MTM/special orders maybe bespoke. The flourish in using sea turtle on the underheel plate tells me no expense was spared to get the look of love.

No.
It factory shoe.
It use decorative t welt and not L welt like real hand made pair.
It good year welted.

Your elusiveness on this question leads me to believe these are not vintage, but newly commissioned. Probably somewhere really shady, like North Korea - but I'm not sure they have capable cobblers.
All I can say for certain is that they are pre-1979 (more like 1950's according to sources), which would put their construction BEFORE the sea turtle was placed on the endangered species list. I just figured I'd have some fun and share them with the SF community, as I can almost guarantee that it will be a LOOOOONG time until another pair shows up here.

No earlier than 1950s.
It not made properly like the old 1950s Florsheim gunboats.
It use t welt.
Here is real pair using L welt:


See!
Inseam go through L welt to leather feather inside.
L welt against upper tight so no water get in.
The turtle gunboat have no inseam stitch from outside,
it cheap factory construction
No storm welt against upper seal good because corners cut in factory construction using t welt,
water can get in and bring gemming failure.
It decorative storm welt.
It silly welt.

Me still like the sea turtle shoe
Me think it very very good
Me want it!

 

[Son Of Saphir]

This is just my baseball game pair:

http://i316.photobucket.com/albums/m...g?t=1302272368

Love them, friend! My uncle LOVES cowboy boots, and owns around 20 pairs of lucchese's. ALL exotics, like yours. VERY tough looking. Since I can't rock the cowboy boot, I was inspired to find some shoes in a similar style...

This use cheap Camine leather.
Me like it.