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79/5
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Folding shoe size measuring stick, stamped 'T. Aston Maker Warranted'. Made of boxwood with brass hinges.
A folding shoe size measuring stick, stamped 'T. Aston Maker Warranted'. It is made of boxwood with brass hinges. It has a folding-up heel rest at one end, and a sliding toe marker. One side is calibrated in inches to one foot, and the other in shoe sizes from one to fourteen.
Physical description
1 shoe measure: wood, metal
Archival history
MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Institute of Agricultural History) – 'Description: Shoe size measure of boxwood with two jointed pieces, one fixed and the other adjustable. // Calibrated with inches up to one foot, and shoe sizes, 1–14 // makers name ‘T Aston’ ‘Warranted’ // Dimensions: length 37.8cms width 2.3cms // Associated information: Original owner and user not known, but the last owner, … Aylesbury, Bucks, thinks he bought this along with other tools from the maintenance engineer at Littlemore Hospital, Oxford (see record form). // References: …’
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