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Buttonhook
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Brass buttonhook with flat rectangular handle. Onto one side is etched a mountain scene, and the other features a rising dragon. Partially obscuring the bottom half of the dragon is a scultupted brass overlay in the shape of a man with cane, holding up a vessel, with large full moon behind his head and back (Orientalism). Minimal tarnish from age.
2024.41.073
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Accessory
Historic Costume
Buttonhook
Female
Brass
1860 - 1910
Buttonhook
Orientalism
Brass
Dragon
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