Collection of Boot and Shoe Patents

Item date: 1771 - 1875
Grant Value: 2,000
Item cost: 4,000
Item date acquired: 1993
Item institution: Northampton Museums and Galleries
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire

833 titles in 28 volumes. The only known set of patents from the footwear industry to be bound together as an accessible unit. A significant reseach tool for scholars at the countrys national collection of historic footwear and archive of the shoemaking industry