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What leather are these shoes made from?

creampiggy

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Saw these shoes second-hand, but wondering what leather are they made from. Anybody can give some idea?
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The following 2 pictures shoes the pair of shoes I got from eBay recently. They are FLORSHEIM IMPERIAL, and someone here thought they are made of sharkskin as well.
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The brown shoes look like shark, but they might simply be bovine leather, made to look like shark.
(You have a metal roller with right pattern...and you come up with the look of shark, crocodile, ostrich, whatever.)

The black ones look a bit like seal, but again, it might be just embossed calf or cow.

What manufacturer?
 

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Look like shark to me.
 

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Photos for the FLORSHEIM IMPERIAL wingtips I bought recently are updated. Do they really look like sharkskin? How can I tell if they are sharkskin or not?
 

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Here's a post from a while back on AAAC:



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Florsheim Imperial Last #

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I am a big fan of the original Florsheim Imperial Kenmoor wingtip. Through cunning shopping I have amasssed a modest collection of over 20 mint pair, including a pair in Black Sharkskin. I think the big reason I like these shoes is obviously their fit. Now because I seem to be somewhat of a "collector" of these shoes, I am interested in all kinds of trivia relating to them. I am hoping some knowledgable person on this site can give me the "last" number for this shoe. Any other tidbits on this "gunboat" of a shoe would be welcomed as well.

P.S. I have recently seen the current "Kenmoor" and it is a dreadful, corrected grain imitation, of it's former self. What a pity!
 

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