Cobblers making sandals in ancient Egypt, with examples of curved-toe sandal 1, palm-leaf sandals 2,3,,4 and leather close-laced shoe 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from J. Sparkes Hall's Book of the Feet, HIstory of Boots and Shoes, New York, 1847.

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