Another pair of utterly unusual M44 lowboots!

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I'd love to share with you the pictures of a pair of "last-ditch" M44/45 Low boots!This one is very interesting imo, in that it's probably a pair of experimental low boots which should have eventually substituted for the bergschuhe and the M37/44.
These boots have an upper band of brownish felt made of animal fibers and are lined inside with soft leather, stamped with the lot # and the typical sizes(28 / 6).They're made of three different types of leather;the rearmost part is made of brown leather,the vamp is made of black, pebbled leather and the front part with rounded-up and internally reinforced toe-cap is made of raw hide.
Nails are driven straight into the thick soles and the heels are nailed with a pattern closely resembling the one found on the heels of Italian made M44s(side nails are identical in shape too;see DJPoole's !).Up front there are bat-wings and the nails are five-sided ones bar a single one which is six-sided.The threads used to sew the various pieces together are a strong cotton thread and an even stronger black thread made of animal fibers.The inner tongue is made of two pieces of black, scrap leather sewn together, a rather unusual feature on German shoes, whose tongue was NEARLY(capital and underlined) always made of a single piece of leather.
The laces passing thru six enameled eyelets and original to the shoes,are made of black cotton and their tips are made of iron.The right shoe has a small paper tag glued to it that reads "Willy Heublein,42" and these shoes were found in a German basement together with a copy of "Die Wehrmacht"whose photos had been colored with crayons by a childish hand....during a bombing may be!I know...it sounds kinda "romantic" but I love to imagine that!These shoes had been auctioned on eBay last year for a very low starting price by a gentleman who described them as"Nailed boots of uncertain origins" or something like that and they were so "Fakeish"that everybody passed on them ....well...sort of...now they are in my collection....to stay !
Hope you enjoy!
Manny

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And now,for something completely different...a few pairs of shoes I keep at the ready for my complete uniforms!

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Compare those shoes to these...Italian-made and dated 1945!

[Peter Wiking]

nice...nice...nice

Peter Wiking

[Michael Kuligowski]

Sweeeeeet !!!!!!!!!!
ciao !!

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Originally Posted by Kuligow

Sweeeeeet !!!!!!!!!!
ciao !!

Ciao Mikey,
Bless ya matey!
Manny

[GEBIRGS-JAGER]

Hi Manny Thank you and More pictures of your collection.Keep up the good work. Brian

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Peter,Mark,Brian,
thank you so much for stopping and watching and for your kind words!
Bless ya'll..........and all the boys fighting in the Gulf!
Manny

[GJR100]

Hi Manny,

Great threads about a very difficult subject ! Always love to read them and learn lots about footwear !

Bart

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Originally Posted by GJR100

Hi Manny,

Great threads about a very difficult subject ! Always love to read them and learn lots about footwear !

Bart

Hi Bart,
we ALL have to learn about them, especially when a pair of nice boots can easily set you back several hundred hard-earned Dollahs!We all want to make sure about that WH sidecap,don't we?A pair of mint knobelbecher cost even more!
Manny

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