Rare Antique Shoe Buttonhook Largest Exclusive Retailer G.R. Kinney CO. Inc.

Description

Rare Antique Shoe Buttonhook Largest Exclusive Retailer G.R. Kinney CO. Inc., founded by George Romanta Kinney.  This is rare and of the round head variety.  Condition is Used and in excellent condition. Shipped with USPS First Class Package.
Some cool info about the company from wikipedia :
Chain and later a subsidiary
Kinney Shoes was the largest family chain shoe retailer in the
United States
at the beginning of 1936, with 335 stores operating nationwide.
[7]
Although it was selling more shoes at the conclusion of 1936 than in 1929, its dollar volume was 20% to 30% below 1929.
[8]
On August 31, 1963, the G.R. Kinney Company was sold to
F.W. Woolworth
.
[2]
Prior to this it was a subsidiary of the
Brown Shoe Company
which sold it for million.
[9]
The firm was renamed the Kinney Shoe Corporation and continued as a fully owned subsidiary of Woolworth.
[10]
It retained its own eleven member board of directors and an existing panel of corporate officers.
Foot Locker exclusivity
The company continued operating throughout the 1960s and 1970s with divisions named Stylco (1967), Susie Casuals (1968), and Foot Locker (1974).
[10]
On September 16, 1998, the
Venator Group
, Woolworth's successor, announced that Kinney's 467 shoe stores and 103 Footquarters stores would close. The Foot Locker division, started in 1974, continues to this day, with Venator changing its name in 2001 to Foot Locker.
[4]
Foot Locker also maintains the trademarks of the Kinney and Woolworth brands.