They Were Found Buried At The Back Of The Shed And Now Will Be Turned Into Art

I saw these Victorian button up boots on an auction site, they had been found buried in a shed that was being cleared. I had already used 1950’s ice skates in an art project and thought this could be the next one for this kind of project. When I received them I could see how roached they actually were. This is the first part of their journey, the restoration or rather a race against time to stop them falling apart.
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In antique shops you can find the button hook tools made of sterling silver. These were used to pull the buttons through the eye holes.

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Yeah they do. I don’t intend these boots to be opened again as I am going to use them for an art piece, but if I was going to I would need a hook as what I didn’t show in that video , I had to re do the buttons stitching them via the holes as I couldn’t do them up by hand 😂. Good job the buttons have metal shanks