Ice skating boot
Manfield and Sons Ltd
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather, metal and textile
Place of origin
Northampton
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Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 1399405
Summary
A pair of ice-skating boots, brown leather, size 8.5. Only one boot is laced. Marked in ink 'R. Ketton Cremer'. Stamped 'Made by Manfield and Sons Ltd, Northampton'. Blade stamped 'John Wilson, Portland Works, Sheffield' with a design of a fox. Blade size 11, No.84.
Provenance
Part of the Windham Collection. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1969 by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969).
Makers and roles
Manfield and Sons Ltd, shoemaker John Wilson , tool manufacturer