Guns, Ammo, and Militaria Auction
Lot 2124:
Pair of vintage black leather tanker boots. Black leather upper, “Biltrite” heavy duty sole, cut heel.. “Herman Shoes and Boots” tag on tongue of left boot. Triple wrap around strap and double buckle securing. Size 8EE. The tanker boot was “designed by Dehner Footwear Co’s H. E. Ketzler and General George S. Patton Jr. in 1937” who “wanted something easy and fast to get on.” Regular combat boots are laced through metal eyelets in the leather upper, but the tanker boots are fastened with leather straps which wrap around the upper and buckle near the top.
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