1891 Patent No. 14,876 eyelets for boots, Hunter & Gilmore, Belfast

Patent No. 14,876 A.D.1891 An improved Eyelet for Facilitating the Lacing and Unlacing of Boots and Shoes

"Alfred Henry Hunter, 25 Waring Street & Robert Lindsay Gilmore, 19 Shaftesbury Square, both of Belfast, Ireland, Gentlemen, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows: This invention has reference to an improved method, whereby the operation of lacing and unlacing boots and shoes, may be accomplished in an easy and effectual manner, and furthermore whereby time may be economised in the act of such lacing and unlacing..."

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