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Buttonhook

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Small buttonhook with hardwood handle in dark colorway. Handle is turned with ball on one end, ogee portion in center, terminating in a brass band into which a steel hook shaft in set. All three pieces secured together by brass running through wood and steel hook shaft. Shaft has small areas of discoloration from tarnish.

2024.41.050

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Accessory

Historic Costume

Buttonhook

Unisex

Wood

Brass

Steel

1860 - 1910

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