# Cobbler’s last

> Every boot in the house was resoled on it.

https://vitrine.themes.dev/collection/last/

- Made by: Unknown foundry
- Date: About 1910
- Material: Cast iron
- Size: 32 cm tall
- Cost new: Two shillings
- Came from: Dorothy Merrin’s house, 2009
- On view: Made to Mend, beside the boots

A three-footed last for a man’s, a woman’s and a child’s shoe. Nobody in the family was a cobbler, but in a house where boots cost a week’s wages, everybody learned to nail on a new sole.

The smallest foot is the most worn. There were five children in the house in the 1920s.