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Another pair of captoes in the great Canadian tradition of chunky and built like a tank. I think these were by Gale.
Resoled and re-heeled from the looks of it, I didn't buy them in the end.
Ostendo makes them old but I suspect that AE won't recraft those.Originally Posted by freakersea
I paid 40AUD and about the same again for postage from US to here, heres some photos of the sole, and by footbed im guessing you mean inner sole?
it looks as though the bottom sole has been cut and had the front half replaced... on one of the shoes you can just make out where it has the beginning of Allen Edmonds then its grazed out the half the sole has been put on with 2 tacs by the looks of it... bit worried about this i was wanting to get them recrafted by allen edmonds because being my first pair i do want them to last as long as possible, im not sure if they will touch them with it like that. With the inner sole sorry about the photo i tried, it says Mcallister Allen Edmonds -Ostendo- Cushioned Heel
Another pair of captoes in the great Canadian tradition of chunky and built like a tank. I think these were by Gale.
Resoled and re-heeled from the looks of it, I didn't buy them in the end.
find me more GREAT Canadian shoes, Dinerman!
... some of you might be interested to see these.
A couple of years ago I was at the Joseph Cheaney factory in Desborough (Northants, UK) and they told me they had been throwing out lots of old wooden lasts. For some reason they had changed over to some form of man-made last. So they had a whole pile of them in a shed. They kindly rescued these for me:
This is a size 9 and a half last made by Mobbs Miller last makers of Kettering:
This is a size 7 last made by Mobbs and Lewis:
Last week I was clearing out my parents' home and found a number of tools, as shown here in the foreground. I am guessing they are shoe repairing tools (my father worked as a shoe repairer for over 20 years from the 1940s until the late 1960s). That said, the wooden handle says it is a carpet repair tool!
"I know I believe in nothing, but is my nothing."
Oh my I would actually buy those vintage lasts if possible!!!
Next time I go, I'm going to ask them if they have any more. I am planning to use them as doorstops and maybe to convert one into a lampstamp.
Last edited by Two Types; 04-14-2012 at 12:29 PM. Reason: rest of sentence
"I know I believe in nothing, but is my nothing."
If the have any pairs in 8-10 I will buy them from you. That is a promise.
Let's hope they haven't used them as firewood during the winter.
"I know I believe in nothing, but is my nothing."
Here's to hoping...
Shell longwings,long day,glad to have them off.
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