YouTube video of a short newsreel showing Eric Lobb at Lobb’s
Notes
- Eric’s grandfather founded the firm during the gold rush, making miners’ boots with a special heel to conceal gold
- 1876 Philadelphia Exhibition gold-medal slippers
- footage of fitting book
- lastmaker shown using a stock knife
- lasts of famous people
- clicker selecting leather, rough cutting by hand with wide margins
- two vamps left attached so they won’t be separated
- “closer”
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the trade secret is how you’ll manage to get the last out afterwards
- shown lasting
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- maker shown welting
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the old, traditional way that’s still the best, even in this machine age
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and that’s how famous people get their shoes
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for about ten guineas