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Buttonhook

Clothing/Dress/Costume

All-steel buttonhook and matching shoehorn in original box. Wooden box covered in black faux-leather material, within inside lined with faded purple silk satin, and black velvet molded recesses for horn and hook. Both horn and hook are stamped with "steel" and are modelled with a rococo-revival style pattern. Cartouches in the center of each handle, but no engraving in cartouches.

2024.41.096a-c

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Historic Costume

Accessory

Tool

Buttonhook

shoehorn

Female

Steel

1870 - 1910

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