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Tool Holder - Wire, circa 1970
Reg. No: HT 8085
- Summary:
- Tool holder used by Sandor Sabo to hold hot boot making tools such as the fudge wheel and glazing iron, while he was making or repairing shoes. Mr Sabo made it himself out of an existing metal wire rack about 1970.
Sandor Sabo migrated to Australia from Yugoslavia in 1970. He was a trained bootmaker who, when working for himself made shoes using a simple range hand tools, without machinery that many larger businesses used. Mr Sabo began working in a bootmaker's workshop at the age of 10, when he was taken off the street to learn to make himself a pair of shoes. He completed his apprenticeship between the ages of 14 and 17 years. After working in Yugoslavia as a bootmaker for 18 years, he then spent two years working in Germany, after which he immigrated to Australia.
In Australia Mr Sabo worked at the Corvin shoe factory in Prahran for ten years, then at the Robin shoe factory in Huntingdale. He later worked at a golf shoe factory in Richmond. Whilst he was employed and in between employment Mr Sabo also made and repaired shoes at home by hand. He also worked at a wire factory and as a gardener. - Description:
- Metal wire rack twisted to make a holder with a stand.
- Acquisition Information:
- Donation from Mr. Sandor Sabo, 2004
| Discipline: | Technology |
| Dimensions: | 7.50 cm (Height), 4.50 cm (Width), 9.30 cm (Length) |
More information
| Tagged with: | working life, immigration, tools, boot shoemaking, boot shoemaking industry, brought goods |
| Themes this item is part of: | Migration Collection, Working Life & Trades Collection, Sandor Sabo, Bootmaker & Yugoslavian Migrant, 1950s |
| Primary Classification: | TRADES |
| Secondary Classification: | Boot & Shoe Making |
| Tertiary Classification: | workshop fittings |
| Maker: | Mr. Sandor Sabo, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, circa 1970 |
| User: | Mr. Sandor Sabo, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1970-1990 |
| References: | Dictionary of leather-working tools c1700-1950 and the tools of allied trades, RA Salaman, George, Allen & Unwin, London, 1986. |
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