Circus, Sideshow & Oddities
Sat, Apr 30, 2022 12:00PM EDT
Lot 466
Robert Wadlow Giant Shoe. Circa 1937. Enormous sample leathe...
Estimate: $400 - $800
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Robert Wadlow Giant Shoe. Circa 1937. Enormous sample leather shoe issued by the I.S. Co. to promote its wares and modeled on a pair manufactured for the tallest man in recorded history, Robert Wadlow, also known as the ?Alton Giant.? Size 35. Sold together with two photographs of Wadlow, and a handwritten plaque explaining the origin of the shoe. When Wadlow died in 1940, he weighed 491 pounds and stood an astonishing 8 feet, 9 ?? high. To this day, he retains his Guinness Book of World Records title as the tallest man to ever live.
