Referred object · evidence file 3
Boot
18 November 1827 · The Eastern Marshes · evidence
Room 14 (closed for maintenance)
- Object number
- NMV/EF/1827/003 (as printed)
- Object type
- Boot
- Date received
- 18 November 1827
- Place
- The Eastern Marshes
- Materials
- Leather, thread, iron nails
- Dimensions
- 28 × 12 × 13 cm
- Department
- Referred objects, held without classification
- Location
- Room 14 (closed for maintenance) · Room 14
The record
A boot of unfamiliar make is recovered from the Eel Cut. The Academy of Sciences describes the stitching as 'not local'. The boot is placed in Room 14.
Provenance: referred by, or concerning
- The War Ministry (recorder)
- Thea Rusk (witness)
- The Eastern Marshes (location)
Disposition
Held under the Museum's general accession. The Academy of Sciences has described it; the War Ministry has been informed; the Museum draws no conclusion. Not on display.
The file is kept in the form in which it was opened. Later additions are dated.
File 3 of 18. Room 14 remains closed for maintenance.
Other files
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| File 2 | 11 October 1826 | A dispatch in the familiar script arrives at the War Ministry by… |
| File 4 | 18 June 1842 | A dispatch in the familiar script arrives at the War Ministry by… |
| File 5 | 5 July 1874 | Fishermen on Lake Tarn report a second sun low in the east for… |
| File 6 | 12 September 1893 | The peat cutter Hanne Moor pulls a small grey coin from deep water… |
| File 7 | 21 November 1894 | A boot of unfamiliar make is recovered from the Eel Cut. The Academy… |
| File 8 | 12 January 1900 | A dispatch in the familiar script arrives at the War Ministry by… |
| File 9 | 12 September 1904 | A boot of unfamiliar make is recovered from the Eel Cut. The Academy… |
| File 10 | 25 July 1908 | The Marschau Conference's empty chair is found, at the morning… |
| File 11 | 3 March 1911 | One hundred years to the day after the first, a second declaration… |
| File 12 | 29 September 1913 | A coin of the same grey metal as the Room 14 specimen turns up in… |
| File 13 | 16 July 1929 | A sentry on the Reed Line reports lights moving in the marsh to the… |
| File 14 | 21 October 1944 | Fishermen on Lake Tarn report a second sun low in the east for… |
| File 15 | 18 April 1993 | A migrating flock passes over Marschau from east to west in numbers… |
| File 16 | 21 May 2007 | A child in Reedside recites a rhyme in a language her parents do not… |
| File 17 | 31 October 2016 | A dispatch in the familiar script arrives at the War Ministry by… |
| File 18 | 9 September 2021 | A migrating flock passes over Marschau from east to west in numbers… |