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Buttonhook

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Medium to small-sized buttonhook. Hardwood handle in dark colorway, turned with ball on top of a taper, terminating in graduated fluting to steel hook shaft. Brass spin sets steel hook shaft into wood handle. Steel hook shaft has sustained a bit of discoloration from tarnish.

2024.41.052

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Accessory

Historic Costume

Buttonhook

Unisex

Wood

Steel

Brass

1860 - 1910

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