A collection of steel advertising button hooks, circa 1900, with teardrop shaped handles with makers names in relief, to include Citadelle du Progress Souvret, J H Keeney Rockville Conn, CG Miller Shoes Rome NY, Societe Parisienne Uls Vins a Bon Marche, A Jeanne d'arc Mme Barbier Vouziers Importe de Allemagne, Talons Caoutchouc Redfern, E L Bliss fine shoes, The Regal Shoe quarter sizes, Weinstock Lubin & Co Sacramento Cal, Harding & Mansfield 9 Peace St N Brunswick NJ, Gendron Chausseur 14 Rue St Andre Importe de Allemagne, C Sautter 114 Genesee St Utica NY, Wm I Wolschendorf Shoes E Bridgewater, Compliments of M S Cahill & Co Alma Polish, largest 13cm, smallest 11cm, a plain wire example 11.4cm together with three small circular handled examples marked Superior Spats, Beals & Orcutt Brockton and Holland's Brockton Shoe Store 8cm (18)
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