Found at a 1800s home place.

[swa]

Found at a 1800's home place.

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

Your find is a brass mid-19th-Century shoe sole wear-protector. The holes are for attaching it to the shoe's toe area, onto and under the sole. It was patented in 1859. Some are marked with the patent-date. See photo below.

 

[kuger]

CBG,have you ever seen one with such enlarged holes like that?

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Yes, I've previously seen the version of shoe tip wear-protector with larger holes. The small-holes version was attached by tiny nails. (You can see the rust on some of the holes in the photo I posted.) The large holes version was made to allow the protector to be stitched onto the shoe-sole's front edge.

 

[kuger]

Yes, I've previously seen the version of shoe tip wear-protector with larger holes. The small-holes version was attached by tiny nails. (You can see the rust on some of the holes in the photo I posted.) The large holes version was made to allow the protector to be stitched onto the shoe-sole's front edge.

Thanks,thats what I was thinking.I have dug a bunch of them and never have seen that....makes sense!

 

[speter42]

I think people used to call them "cleats"...I used to wear them myself, when I wanted to draw attention to myself. Ha!

 

[swa]

Thanks for the info. I was trying to date the place i was searching to see if it could possibly be a home place from an 1870 map.