Shoeshine Gifts

Shoe Shine Boy

Daniel Day Lewis & George Glasgow

"Wait, I've got sand in my shoe."

Tortoise polishing his shell

Little girl shows her dog her shiny shoes.

'They're pinching my toes!'

An old gentleman speaking with a shoeblack at a train station

"Got to have a pair of those!"

The Shoemaker's Appendectomy

'Two large ones when you're ready please barkeeper'

'He's trying to put three kids through college.'

Bootmaker upset over the death of a long term customer

Trying on boots

"Psst. . . fancy shoe sales are down. Can you make Crocs instead?"

'Touching.'

"Foul!"

'Open it... I think they have to go potty.'

Dogs at Dog Show Judging the Judges.

Boot shiner puts a smiley on a policemen's boot.

'Give it a rest, Howard. The company will survive for a few days without your shoeshine stand.'

Arr...Italian it be.

Grimm's Fairytales - The Elves and the Shoemaker

'The bartender referred me to a shoe shine boy, and the shoe shine boy referred me to you.'

Boy cleaning servant's shoes

'Business could be better-how about you?'

"The contractor that built this house used to be a shoemaker."

"Of course I don't have your shoes...you told me you wanted them re-sold."

"So you think you can cobble!"

Man with a wooden leg asking to be measured for a pair of boots

Shoemaker, no longer needs elves due to lockdown

Clown at shoe-shine.

Orthapaedic shoemakers

I made shoes for you last night, but Bob set up your website and mass marketing e-mail program.

Specimen of Mr Punch's Industrial Exhibition of 1850 (to be improved in 1851)

'Darling, what do you think? Our baby's learnt to tie his shoelaces!'