Wax Cake for Hand-Stitching Shoes [1930s-1960s]
Utilitarian Object
Identifier:
OBJ.N.2022.13
Description
A cylindrical wax block with groves around its side, used by hand stitchers of shoes to quickly apply wax to their cords or threads. This one would have been used at Old Town Shoe, the Penobscot Shoe Company workshop in operation until the 1960s in what is today named River House in Old Town, ME. Penobscot Shoe Company was founded by Max Kagan and Philip W. Lown in 1935 as Philco Shoe Company and purchased by Phoenix Footwear Group in 2000.