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The Brandon Collection

A collection of steel advertising button hooks

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A collection of steel advertising button hooks, circa 1900, five having flattened advertising panel to body with circular terminals to include H H Nichols Sole Agency Elizabethtown NY Queen Quality Shoes, Queen Quality Shoes, O'Connor & O'Brien Sole Agency Sherburne NY Queen Quality Shoes, F W Mann & Son Artists in Foot Fitting Sole Agency Devils Lake ND Queen Quality Shoes, Watt's His Name Footwear Expert Park St West Hartlepool and Branches, all 16cm - 17.5cm, scroll terminal and body example I Wit Maker Traveler $2.50 Shoes Men's & Women's 17cm, coloured enamel central lozenge decorated Diamond Quality V Schoenecker Boot & Shoe Co Milwaukee Wis 16cm, scroll and chevron border Advertising Novelties Batchelor & Lincoln Co 14.5cm, nail terminal Souvenir Pan Am 1901 14cm, ornate scroll pistol grip style example embossed Fayard Bottier 15.5cm, ballon terminal Elks' Convention Baltimore July 1916 The Hub Baltimore Charles & Fayette with engraved Elk design 12.5cm and The Gustave Fox Co Metal Advertising Novelties Cincinnati Ohio of rounded design with scroll and fern border 15.5cm (12)

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