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Footwear - Boot, leather, child's

  • A child's well worn black boot found under the floor of a pilot's terrace house in Gellibrand Street Queenscliff. It is over 170 years old and was probably put there by the family during construction for good luck or to ward off bad luck

    Child's Leather Boot

  • A child's well worn black boot found under the floor of a pilot's terrace house in Gellibrand Street Queenscliff. It is over 170 years old and was probably put there by the family during construction for good luck or to ward off bad luck

    Child's Leather Boot

  • A child's well worn black boot found under the floor of a pilot's terrace house in Gellibrand Street Queenscliff. It is over 170 years old and was probably put there by the family during construction for good luck or to ward off bad luck
  • A child's well worn black boot found under the floor of a pilot's terrace house in Gellibrand Street Queenscliff. It is over 170 years old and was probably put there by the family during construction for good luck or to ward off bad luck

Historical information

Child's well worn leather boot found under the floor of a Sea Pilot's terrace house in Gellibrand Street. It was a custom for local people to place a child's shoe under the floorboards of a house to 'ward off evil spirits'.

Physical description

Child's boot, circa 1850s

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