Gumboots

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Title

Gumboots

Content partner

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

These Red Band gumboots were made by the New Zealand company Skellerup, and are the most iconic and well-known gumboot in New Zealand, particularly for rural workers. Skellerup first started making high quality rubber products in 1910 when George Skellerup, a Danish Australian, opened his first retail store in Christchurch, selling tyres and rubber goods for the dairy industry.Skellerup began producing footwear in 1943. Red Band gumboots were first made in 1958 by Marathon Rubber Footwear Ltd...

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Format

Image

Date created

2011

Creator

Skellerup Industries Limited

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1256420

Related subjects

rubber / boots / Christchurch / New Zealand

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