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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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