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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ola402, post: 3681537, member: 182&quot;]I just pulled out the pair of bronzed baby shoes that were my grandfather&#039;s.&nbsp; They have buttons down the side that you would use a shoe buttoner to close.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t like them much but not allowed to get rid of them.&nbsp; Every family has the one person who seems to be&nbsp; responsible for all the stuff no one else wants, but no one wants to throw away.&nbsp; That&#039;s me.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here in Columbus, Ohio we had a fairly famous bronzing company.&nbsp; They started in 1934 as the Bronze Baby Shoe Co. and when they closed in 2018 they were known as Bron-Shoe.&nbsp; They claimed to have bronzed over 14 million items.&nbsp; I called them once to find out the cost to re-plate (they did silver too) a really cool old silver plate piece, but it was way more expensive than the item was worth.&nbsp; Once I found at an auction, an antique silver plate napkin ring that the owner had chromed there.&nbsp; Guess they didn&#039;t like to polish silver.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The OP&#039;s shoes look pretty old.&nbsp; I&#039;m trying to think what era it was that baby shoes were &quot;pinked&quot; on the edges (like with pinking shears).&nbsp; Wasn&#039;t that the 40s / 50s?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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