Important Vintage Bespoke Full Brogue Oxford with Custom Fitted Trees
Peal & Co.
Circa 1950
Euro 620

First let us dispel any similarity to Brook Brothers products marketed under the Peal name. This is a hand-sewn, bespoke/custom made shoe, actually made by Peal & Co. before its dissolution.

Please notice that custom fitted Peal & Co. Shoe Trees are accompany these shoe. .

History of the firm: “Peal and Co were founded in 1565 and were the oldest-established and most successful makers in the world, employing up to 200 staff. The firm was established in Durham and moved to Derby in 1765, reaching London in 1791. In 1953 Peal bought their Oxford Street neighbours, Bartley and Son, inheriting their Boot and Fox emblem and moved to Wigmore Street in 1958. The business closed early in 1965, when the family decided that lack of family succession, a declining trade and shortage of skilled staff made closure their best option. The closure of Peal and Co was very helpful to the remaining shoemakers in London including Foster and Son, who acquired two important assets, the boot and fox emblem and Mr. Terry Moore, Peal’s master last maker. The old Peal lasts are still said to be in use by Foster & Son.

Peal & Co. counted among their clients, luminaries from both sides of the Atlantic, among them (a much shortened list);

Fred Astaire
Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore
Humphrey Bogart & Mrs. H Bogart (Lauren Bacall)
Sir Charles Chaplin
Gary Cooper
Mrs. Walt Disney
Sir Douglas Fairbanks
Henry Fonda
James Garner
Cary Grant
Rex Harrison
Boris Karloff
Steve McQueen
Sir.John Mills
Sir David Niven
Sir Laurence Olivier
Mary Pickford
Mrs Rudolph Valentino
Guy de Rothschild
Henry Ford II & Mrs H Ford
Benny Goodman
Dean Martin,
Jehudi Menuhin
Richard Avedon
Lady Violet Bonham Carter nee Asquith, 40 Gloucester Sq.,
Mrs. Neville Chamberlain
Rt. Hon Sir Anthony Eden KG
Dean G Acheson, US Secretary of State
Barry Goldwater, Senator
Edward L Kennedy
John F Kennedy
Mr. Marx of Berlin c/o Dr W Smith, West Lodge, West End Lane, Hampstead
Col. Elliott Roosevelt, son of FDR & Eleanor
Theodore Roosevelt
HM King Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor
Hon F Bowes-Lyon, brother of the Queen Mother
F J Bowes-Lyon, Grenadier Guards
Lady Rosemary Spencer Churchill
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Duke of Westminster
Prince Aga Khan
Princess Eugene of Belgium
King of the Hellenes (Greece)
Crown Princess of Greece
Prince Nicholas of Greece
Prince Peter of Greece
Crown Prince Constantine of Greece
Crown Princess of Japan
King & Crown Prince of Norway
Prince Christian of Schleswig Holstein
Crown Prince of Sweden
Queen Marie of Yugoslavia

Size Details:

Shoe Condition:

All original and in remarkably fine condition for being a half century old. Original soles and heels showing modest wear and the tops showing a wonderfully patina and the leather soft from careful care. A gentleman's shoe..