After 25 years of repairing shoes, bags, belts and motorcycle leathers out of Country Cobbler in Mornington, Greg Fox, 67, is calling it a day.
He was keen to move on and do a bit of travelling and spend time with his grandchildren, Mr Fox said.
In about three weeks he was heading to Melbourne for a holiday and was hopeful a buyer would take his business off his hands.
His shop was a time capsule full of equipment, unclaimed shoes and all sorts of bits and pieces, he said.
It was not going to be easy to clean and move out of.
"It would be nice if I had someone interested. They could walk in and I could walk out."
All the machinery, customers and leftover shoes would be a part of the deal.
His stockpile of unclaimed shoes was massive because people sometimes took years to pick them up.
A former University of Otago student got in touch two years after she forgot to pick up her shoes and he still had them.
Before owning his own business, Mr Fox worked at Dunedin Hospital making footwear for patients.
He was made redundant and used his payout to set up shop in Mornington.
Mr Fox said being a cobbler was an old art form that went out of fashion after the advent of plastic technology in shoes, which made them much cheaper and easier to throw out.
At his peak, Mr Fox was repairing about 20 pairs of shoes a day, but now limits himself to about 10 pairs a day.
