Elongated steel shaft with crook hook end; simply turned and shaped wooden handle.
buttonhooks
accessories
steel (alloy)
wood (plant material)
Buttonhook
Buttonhook
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
3 3/4 (H) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.615
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