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Buttonhook
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Medium to small-sized buttonhook. Hardwood handle in dark colorway, turned with ball on top of a taper, terminating in graduated fluting to steel hook shaft. Brass spin sets steel hook shaft into wood handle. Steel hook shaft has sustained a bit of discoloration from tarnish.
2024.41.052
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Accessory
Historic Costume
Buttonhook
Unisex
Wood
Steel
Brass
1860 - 1910
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