Pair of evening shoes

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NCM 1980-328

These shoes were made by a European shoemaker working in India, and may have been worn at some Royal or Viceregal ceremony, perhaps connected with the Delhi Durbar in 1911 – the grand extravaganza to mark the coronation of King George V as King-Emperor of India.

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