Yesterday morning I had a wander around the
Somerset Rural Life Museum where they have a 29K leather patcher which came from the Clarks shoe factory in Street. The musuem had dated it as 1909.
It's definitely a 29K, it says so on the badge!
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But if I've read the serial number correctly, F4990809 then according to the
ISMACS website it's one of 130,000 28Ks from 1910.
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It's clearly been well used, and although the belt is missing, and there's no needle in it, the fly wheel turned easily moving the needle bar and foot. I wonder how many shoes were sewed with it?
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