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Buttonhook

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Large buttohook with sterling silver handle and steel hook shaft. Sterling handle featured an overal baroque style shape, with scrollwork modelling across body of handle. Top, more bulbous end hass a cartouche which has been left blank of both sides of the handle. Tapered end of handle has the face or an old beared man, a king, or "Green Man." Hallmarks across band of handle flange.Steel hook shaft has a bit of tarnish

2024.41.038

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Accessory

Historic Costume

Buttonhook

Female

Sterling silver

Steel

1860 - 1910

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