Lot 184
British WWI Issue B5 Trench Boots (Mismatched Pair)

















Opening: $500
These British B5 boots are both of black leather with BroadArrow pierced markings on the upper sides, each features seven pairs of eyelets, and are fitted with leather thong laces. Stitching is weak and has given way on the pull tab on the right boot. They show similar wear, right down to the matched overpronation wear to the inside portion of the toe caps on each boot. However, they are two distinctly different examples; the right with iron rivets and brass eyelets, and the left with black Japanned rivets and eyelets. The left also appears to be a half size smaller. Given the uniform wear pattern, these could very easily be a set of B5 boots that served the same soldier, as many of us have feet that are slightly different sizes, though rarely enough to bother with procuring footwear to exactly shoe each of Shank's ponies. Regardless, they are each good examples of the scarce B5 trench boot, and would absolutely display as a pair. $1000-$1500