A pair of wedding slippers in ivory silk brocade shoes with pink and green floral motif with top strap closure of simple hammered metal shoe buckles (C,D).
slippers (shoes)
brocade (textile)
silk (textile)
wood and wood products
linen (material)
metal
weddings
shoes (footwear)
footwear
Shoe
Shoe
"Wedding Slippers / Sarah Greenleaf / marred to / Nathaniel Walk Appleton / June 29th 1780"
(Granny note in dark ink on paper tag and attached to slippers)
TR2987.2
Unknown
English or United States
Gift of Carol Sherman-Rogers, 2026
2026.2.2A-D
ca. 1780 (Said to be worn for a wedding on May 24, 1780\n )
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