STUTTGART SPECIMENS. 



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Shoes of the second type, as shown in figure 6$, are not 

 unfrequently found in the 

 neighbourhood of Stuttgart. 

 They are of medium size, 

 broad at the toe, with six or 

 eight nail-holes, and partly 

 grooved for the nail-holes. 

 The sole is in some instances 

 a little hollowed out towards 

 the inner circumference ; the 

 calks are high, square, and 

 placed towards the ends of the branches, something like 

 slipper-heels {Pantqffelstollen), cut off obliquely, and in 

 some very much prolonged. Some of these shoes have 

 only one calk («), which is long and pointed, while the 

 other heel of the shoe (Z'), has merely an edge bent down- 

 ward to match it. This shoe has a seat (rich tang, curve to 

 fit the foot) quite peculiar, the heel extremity being quite 

 thin and tapering, and curving up towards the back part of 

 the foot (fig. 66, a). The Oriental and Arab shoes have the 

 same bend given to them 

 even in the present day. 

 Since these articles corre- 

 spond with the descrip- 

 tion of Spanish shoes 

 both in their form and 

 curve, and since Stuttgart 

 was alternately besieged and occupied by the Spaniards 

 in the years 1546 to 155 1, and in 1638, it may 

 be assumed with reasonable certainty that they are of 

 Spanish origin.' 



fig. 66 



