This button hook was used by Annie Meredith Brown (née Nicholls) and her daughter Annie Meredith Bailey (née Brown). Button hooks were mainly used for doing up buttons on shoes and boots.Small button hook with bone handle, the hook folds inwards and opens out like a penknife.button hooks

Silver button hook with angel head ornamentation on handle. Used for doing up boots or shoes with buttons.clothing accessories, footwear

Item sold by Jones, a shop located in Bridge Street, Ballarat.Metal button hook with hoop shaped handle, a narrow shaft ended with a small hook. The shop details are printed in relief on the handle.Jones, Bridge Street, Ballaratfootwear, clothing accessories, button hooks

Button hooks were used to fastens buttons on boots and long gloves. It is a tool used for the closing of shoes, gloves or other apparel that uses buttons as fasteners. The steel hook end is inserted through the buttonhole to capture the button by the shank and draw it through the opening. This hook is most likely to have been used to do up bootsWomen and young girls generally wore boots that were either front laced or side buttoned, particularly in the period from the 1870s . Buttonhooks were needed to do up the buttons on buttoned boots and were used by poking the metal hook through the buttonhole, grabbing the button and pulling it through the eyelet. This item is an example of a commonly used accessory no longer relevant.A button hook made of metal with a beaten silver handle ornately decorated with scrolls and foliate design. At the top is a small ring on the handle end. This could have been for a lady to attach the item to her chatelaine at her belt, or on a necklace. clothing footwear gaiters boots button-hook

Button hook with carved handle.button hook, domestic item, footwear

Folding button hook would have been used for bringing buttons through button holes for clothing such as gloves in Victorian times. this item dates from early 1900s to 1930s.Used by resident of the Kiewa Valley.Silver metal oval surrounding a straight silver metal prong which has a hook at one end and, at the other end, is attached to the oval shape which comes in and extends as a short handle. The hook is hinged on to the oval shape enabling the hook to be pushed out creating a long tool for hooking buttons. May be used on clothing including gloves. button hook, shoes, gloves, boots, clothig, victorian, folding button hook

Metal button hook, Thomas Phillips. Corner Smith & Johnston Streets Collingwood.lcostume accessories, footwear accessories, button hook

An item such as this would have been used by a woman to put on her boots and lace them up. Button up boots were used extensively in the 19th and early 20th centuries and this item would have been common in households at that time.This item has no known local provenance but is retained as an interesting memento of the past.This is a metal shoe horn at one end of the item with a curved button hook at the other end. The item is much worn and stained.women's accessories, shoe horn, button hook, warrnambool history

A button hook is a tool used for the closing of shoes, gloves or other apparel that uses buttons as fasteners. It consists of a steel hook fixed to a handle which may be simple or decorative. The hook end is inserted through the buttonhole to capture the button by the shank and draw it through the opening. Many were distributed as advertising for a Company, as this is for 'Ezywalkin' footwearWalter David Cookes established the Ezywalkin Shoe Company Pty Ltd in 1901 in Fremantle Western Australia. The Melbourne factory was established in 1910A steel, button hook for shoes and gaiterson handle 'WEAR EZYWALKIN'S SHOES 'clothing, footwear, gaiters, boots, ezywalkin footwear, cookes walter david, company ltd, craftwork, moorabbin, brighton, early settlers, pioneers, cheltenham

A button hook is a tool used for the closing of shoes, gloves or other apparel that uses buttons as fasteners. It consists of a steel hook fixed to a handle that may be simple or decorative. The hook end is inserted through the buttonhole to capture the button by the shank and draw it through the opening.The family of May Curtis were early settlers in Moorabbin ShireA metal button hook for shoes and gaiters with an 'Ivorine' handleclothing, footwear, gaiters, boots, craftwork, ivorine, moorabbin, brighton, early settlers, pioneers, cheltenham, curtis may

Button hook

Metal button hook

Object. Handle engraved with the owners initials - MB. A ''knob'' at the top of the handle, has a foliage type design impressed in the steel. This continues down each side of the handle, finishing with further decoration at the base of the handle. Just beside this lower decoration, on each side is a hallmark, now very difficult to read. A small one cm. diameter hook at the lower edge of the tapered shaft.On the shaft of the hook - ''English mane ? Or make? Steel . On handle MB in ornate engraving- (Maggie Barber).personal effects, steel button hook

Button hook with pearl handlecostume accessories, collar accessories

Used as advertising material by Nugget Boot Polish Co.Silver coated button hook'Use Nugget Polish'costume accessories, footwear accessories

Button hook with mother of pearl handle.flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked-coast, flagstaff-hill, flagstaff-hill-maritime-museum, maritime-museum, shipwreck-coast, flagstaff-hill-maritime-village

Metal button hook with silver handle.Silver markcostume accessories, female

Combined button hook for boots and shoe horn'High Grade/J.H. Sharwood footwear'costume accessories, footwear accessories

Small silver glove button hook with pattern.buttonhooks, gloves

Silver button hook with decorated handle. Silver markcostume accessories, clothes accessories

Button hook for boots with amber and green pearlised handle.costume accessories, footwear accessories

Large silver coated button hook with elaborate handle.buttonhooks

Used by Mrs. Dorothy AdamsonSmall glove button hook for handbag. Small pattern. buttonhooks, handbags, gloves,

Used to catch buttons and pull them through eyelets on button up boots and shoes.Button hook set - black oblong box lined with dark blue satin and velvet containing four button hooks of various sizes. Hooks are silver plated with ornate handles.costume accessories, footwear accessories

Button hook with bone handle used for fastening buttons on dressescostume accessories, clothes accessories

Used for buttoning boots.Button hook for buttons on shoes. Has grey wooden handles.costume accessories, footwear accessories

A combination glove button hook and pen knife. Silver with bone handle.buttonhooks, knives, penknives