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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number COLEM:2002.16.59=60 Institution name Colchester Collections Object name last Description A pair of wooden shoe lasts, used for making shoes. These were owned by Kazimierz (Johnny) Hurlo, a Polish shoemaker who arrived in Colchester after the Second World War. He had been captured and sent to a Russian labour camp near Finland from which he escaped and walked 2000 miles to Iran. He then joined the Free Polish Navy and was demobbed at the end of the war in Weymouth, England. Production period Modern Material wood, metal Dimensions length: 230.00 mm Location In Store Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

COLEM:2002.16.59=60
Institution name

Colchester Collections
Object name

last
Description

A pair of wooden shoe lasts, used for making shoes. These were owned by Kazimierz (Johnny) Hurlo, a Polish shoemaker who arrived in Colchester after the Second World War. He had been captured and sent to a Russian labour camp near Finland from which he escaped and walked 2000 miles to Iran. He then joined the Free Polish Navy and was demobbed at the end of the war in Weymouth, England.
Production period

Modern
Material

wood, metal
Dimensions
Location

In Store

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