| Posted by Seva on June 7, 2014 | |
Among the services being offered by the department store, what the heck is "baby shoe bronz"?
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The family of the baby would take the child's first pair of shoes to the store. The store would send the shoes to a firm offering Bronzing. The shoes would be dipped into molten Bronze, and when the metal cooled, the shoes would be mounted on a wooden base with a brass plate stamped with the baby's name and date of birth. The finished assembly would be returned to the store for pickup by the baby's family.
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| Posted by Seva on August 5, 2014 | |
Ah, I see, like a souvenir of when the kid was a baby and had little feet. Cute. I've never heard of this tradition before, is this an Appalachian thing?
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