I'm SO SORRY! As Steph said, we saved you!
Honestly, I would have kept it in your inventory, but I myself had a BAD experience with that exact issue.
The item bugged me so badly that my pirate was actually a danger to the entire database and had to be scrubbed clean by our lead dev. Not a fun time.
If anyone else has this issue, please come forward and I'd be happy to perform emergency surgery on your pirate.
Mr. Dev, breaking the database and autobanning people that buy boots since 2016. (I'm shocked I'm not fired at this point)