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Blundstone Footwear (/ ˈ b l ʌ n d s t ən / BLUND-stən) [1] is an Australian footwear brand, based in Hobart, Tasmania, with most manufacturing being done overseas since 2007. The company's best-known product is its line of laceless, elastic-sided, ankle-length boots .
Chelsea boots in brown suede. The design is credited to Queen Victoria's shoemaker Joseph Sparkes Hall. [2] Hall claimed that "She (Queen Victoria) walks in them daily and thus gives the strongest proof of the value she attaches to the invention". [3] In his advertising they are branded J. Sparkes Hall's Patent Elastic Ankle Boots. [4]
Some of the more popular brands are Blundstone, [a] [b] [3] Rossi Boots, [c] R. M. Williams, Baxter Boots, [d] [4] Redback Boots, Mongrel Boots, [e] and Steel Blue. In Australian English , the manufacturer's brand name is often associated generically with this style of boot, leading to the names Blunnies , RMs or Rossis .
The "chelsea" filter was originally devised by Anderson and Payne in 1934 of the Gem testing Laboratory of the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry.The filter was devised with the collaboration of gemmology students of the Chelsea College of Science and Technology where Basil Anderson was an instructor for the Gemmological Association of Great Britain.