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Buttonhook
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Small buttonhook with hardwood handle in dark colorway. Handle is turned with ball on one end, ogee portion in center, terminating in a brass band into which a steel hook shaft in set. All three pieces secured together by brass running through wood and steel hook shaft. Shaft has small areas of discoloration from tarnish.
2024.41.050
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Accessory
Historic Costume
Buttonhook
Unisex
Wood
Brass
Steel
1860 - 1910
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