New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Button hook

Manufacturer W. B. Kerr & Co.

CultureAmerican

DateNo Date

MediumSterling | Enamel

DimensionsOverall: 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm)

InscribedAll pieces marked. Monogrammed in script: "MTC" (?).

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number77.1072J

Not on view

DescriptionButton hook, from a dresser set consisting of a large clothes brush, hair brush, small clothes brush, comb, hand mirror, perfume bottle, two small jars, a powder jar with powder puff, button hook, nail file, cuticle trimmers, and shoe horn. All are silver mounts of a watered-silk pattern with borders of blue and white enamel.