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Buttonhook
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Large buttohook with sterling silver handle and steel hook shaft. Sterling handle featured an overal baroque style shape, with scrollwork modelling across body of handle. Top, more bulbous end hass a cartouche which has been left blank of both sides of the handle. Tapered end of handle has the face or an old beared man, a king, or "Green Man." Hallmarks across band of handle flange.Steel hook shaft has a bit of tarnish
2024.41.038
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Accessory
Historic Costume
Buttonhook
Female
Sterling silver
Steel
1860 - 1910
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