Buttonhook

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Genesee Country Village & Museum

Name/Title

Buttonhook

Entry/Object ID

2024.41.038

Description

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

Collection

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Category

Accessory
Historic Costume

Clothing/Dress/Costume Details

Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume

Buttonhook

Clothing Sex

Female

Textile Details

Material

Sterling silver, Steel

Made/Created

Date made

1860 - 1910