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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