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Buttonhook

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Medium-sized buttonhook with sterling silver handle and steel hook. Sterling handle features ornate rococo-revival design. Scrollwork cylindrical interior handle, flanked by larger scrolls with pearldrop ridge on either side, topped with large clamshell or palmette which is pierced. Hallmarked "STERLING" on flange area of hook shaft. Shaft is tarnished with small blackened areas.

2024.41.032

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Accessory

Historic Costume

Buttonhook

Female

Sterling silver

Steel

1860 - 1910

Buttonhook

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