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      Date: 1930 -

Description: Pair of shoe trees with silver-painted wooden ends, and wires covered in blue and grey felt with orange and grey decoration on top. Used to keep shoes in shape when not being worn. Belonged to, and probably decorated by, Hilda Blundstone (1914-2003) who lived most of her life on Flinders Island, having arrived there in 1937 to take up the position of teacher at Whitemark School.

Format: realia
Object: personal effects
Material: wood (material);  metal

Titles:
Shoe Trees

Subjects: shoes

People/Orgs: Blundstone, Hilda

Institution: Furneaux Historical Research Association Inc.

Object number: FHR_00658

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