Solar Tip Shoes Antique Victorian Tradecard, c 1881 green I'd want to use it

I'd want to use it or at least keep it near at hand

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Solar Tip Shoes Antique Victorian Tradecard, c 1881 green I'd want to use itI just love the graphics on this John Mundell & Co antique trade card for its "Solar Tip Shoes" patented in 1878 and at the time this card was produced "now used for more than three years" including by all "eleven hundred students at Girard College, Philadelphia, PA" and delivering "entire satisfaction usually mended twice, often four times, before they are worn out." I'm not quite sure what is "solar" about the tip, but I really love the peekaboo