These shoes once belonged to Sikandar Jah, the 18 th century Nizam of Hyderabad. The delicate design is extremely complex and anything unlike you’ve seen before. The whole shoe is embroidered using gold thread and features numerous rubies, emeralds, diamonds, and other expensive gemstones. The shoes, valued at $160,000, were the property of a Toronto-based museum, but were stolen. Thankfully, they were recovered but had sustained some damage in the process.
Custom-made, historical golden shoes
Unlike the other shoes from this list, these golden slippers are custom-made for 18th century India ruler Nizam Sikandar Jah. When he passed away and a new ruler was named, these slippers came with the throne and made their way from one royalty to the next. It landed as a show-piece of the Treasures in Bata Shoe Museum and was insured for $160,000.
The shoes, which looked more like Aladdin’s slippers, are made out of gold elements, including intricate gold embroidery. It was also decorated with rubies, diamonds, emeralds and other expensive stones, which is why it became the symbol of 18th century royalty.
On January 22, 2006, the Nizam Sikandar Jah shoes were stolen from the museum. Interestingly, they were found in late August 2006 at a church just 100 meters from the museum. By November 2006, the Nizam Sikandar Jah shoes were displayed back at the museum as part of the exhibition called “Chronicles of Riches: Treasures of the Bata Shoe Museum.”
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