Vintage Mountaineering Pair of Crampons, Oscar Eckenstein.
Vintage Mountaineering Pair of Crampons, Oscar Eckenstein.
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Vintage Mountaineering Crampons.
A pair of early 10 point wrought iron crampons in the design of Oscar Eckenstein (1859 -1921). Eckenstein was a passionate climber and innovator. He developed this type of hinged crampons in 1908 and two years later, with the help of Henry Grivel of Courmayeur on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc, they became commercially available.
Each crampon has a formed steel loop at the rear that fits onto the heel of a boot, there are 6 metal rings to bind the rest of the crampon to the boot. Each crampon stamped 'W.GENOSSENSCHNT FUIRMES' in a circle, one also stamped 'Eckenstein', 43.
Dimensions:
1900-1949
C. 1910
Iron
Continental
Very good
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