Lot Two Victorian Metal Antique Shoe Boot Corset Glove Button Hooks Advertising

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LotTwo Victorian Metal Antique Shoe Boot Corset Glove Button Hooks Advertising Decor
Both these Shoe / Boot / Corset / Glove Button Hooks are great antiques.  Use for display or decorating.
One is 5" long the other is 3-1/2" long.
The one with advertising reads:  "WALK-OVER" SHOES FOR MEN & WOMEN   PAT'D _395.
Buttonhooks are a tool used to close off the buttons on high top shoes.  The hook was inserted through the buttonhole to capture the button and draw it through the opening.  At Ellis Island, screeners known as "buttonhook men" used button hooks to turn immigrants' eyelids inside out to look for signs of trachoma.
When World War 1 made leather scarce, high top shoes went out of fashion making button hooks unnecessary and -- now a days -- hard-to-find antiques.
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