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Buttonhook

Clothing/Dress/Costume

A small buttonhook made from steel hook shaft and bone handle. Gentle rounded end handle of bone tapering to terminate into steel hook shaft. Natural color variations in bones grain. Slight discoloration on steel hook from tarnish.

2024.41.053

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Accessory

Historic Costume

Buttonhook

Unisex

Steel

Bone

1860 - 1910

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