Boots, Ice Skating

Production date
Circa 1940s
 Description
A pair of black leather lace up ice skating boots fitted with steel blades and featuring 11 eyelets on each boot. " Polar Torpedo Quall. 11 " and " Agon Model Peter Sorensen JC " is marked on one side of the blades. The blades are fixed to the the bottom with eight screws on the front and four screws on the back. An ankle support strap runs from the heel up over the ankle and fastens with a small square metal buckle on the outside edge of the boot. Each blade fits into a long narrow wooden protector fitted with two leather straps.
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Object detail

Production date
Circa 1940s
Production place
Denmark
Classification
Sports Equipment/Recreational Artifacts
Credit line
This pair of ice skates was bought from a shoemaker in Copenhagen, Denmark by Peter Peckham soon after World War II ended. He remembers he paid the shoemaker 10 packets of cigarettes for them. Peter, together with his wife Joy, used to ice skate for leisure in a number of places around the United Kingdom.
Accession number
TM1999.051
Collection type
Sportswear
Textiles
Social History
Material
Leather
Steel
Metal
Wood

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