Digital Collections
Buttonhook/Shoehorn
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Brass buttonhook and shoehorn combination. Shoehorn end features Japanese-style etching of bird rising up a mountain landscape, sun shining, and sakura blossom in foreground. Three-dimensional smaller bird is applied in lower portion of sherhorn. Sakura branch etched into reverse side of shoehorn. Brass is dulled from age. No visible markings.
2024.41.40
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Accessory
Historic Costume
Buttonhook
Female
Brass
1865 - 1910
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