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Buttonhook

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Small buttonhook made from steel hook shaft. Handle section of steel hook shaft is flattened, with bone slats "sandwiching" shaft, riveted in place by two rivets. Natural variation on color across bone grain. Steel hook shaft sustains discoloration from tarnish.

2024.41.054

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Accessory

Historic Costume

Buttonhook

Unisex

Steel

Bone

Steel with bone handle

1860 - 1910

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