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Buttonhook

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Large buttohook with sterling silver handle and steel hook. Sterling handle features a teardrop or Paisley shape, covered in modelled scrollwork. Small flowers and dots fill in negative space of scrollwork. One side of handle contains a blank cartouche within the scrollwork. The cartouche has suffered a smalld dent. Several hallmarks are punched into flange band. Steel hook is entirely tarnished to a deep brownish-black.

2024.41.034

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Accessory

Historic Costume

Buttonhook

Female

Sterling silver

Steel

1860 - 1910

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