A5866

Small shoe or boot, presumably a child's; right shoe; leather upper, sole and built up heel; fastened by 7 studs; plentiful nails in the sole; a well-made item, showing plenty of wear before being placed in the chimney of the house. Another example of a personal item deposited within a building for superstitious reasons; recovered from a house in Lavender Hill, Battersea, London

late 19th century?

shoe, costume, Victorian child's boot

leather, metal