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It’s interesting to look at the internals of an LB Sheppard: they’re remarkably leather intensive. Leather inside leather inside leather. Very interesting to compare them to some of the contract shoes they made, which might have similar workmanship, but were made from minimal amounts of leather.
Fantastic!
Thank you! What’s the deal with the Newport Last? Incredible lines. Did that go away? It’s not the same as the 222 is it??
With Kiltie. Trifecta of shoe ornamentation
Agreed, they are not older than the 50s and the price is absurd. What was surprising to me is that the soles are stamped "shell horsehide soles". Is it possible to tan shells into sole leather? Since shell is non-porous, I wouldn't think so. If it is possible, why would someone do this?I dunno, I don’t think those are 30’s; look late 50’s to me. Quality is so-so.
Compare to my early 50’s NOS Weyenberg’s (please excuse the conditioner in the brogueing and pinking):
Or my French Shriner & Urner’s:
The details on those Wolverines aren’t great. Interior linings are weirdly synthetic looking and are poorly stitched around the interior collar:
The welt finishing and stitching, when examined closely, isn’t super well executed (it actually pretty wonky in places):
In comparison to the Weyenberg’s and French Shriner and Urner’s, these are pretty lackluster. I don’t personally care that the soles are made of shell... that’s kinda the wrong part of the shoe for me to care about that - they did that because these were “foreman” shoes, for heavy wear on construction sites, etc.
They’d be a neat vintage addition at 150 bucks, but at 1,500, the seller is smoking 98% pure crystal meth.
Well, there is a strong chance that you purchase more pairs of shell shoes than the average farmer.
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