2 new ones

Both from the same seller I've purchased from before.

Portland folder

second Oklahoma Territory hook

S. N. Brees Hennessey, O.T. this one wasn't easy to win. Territory items are very competitive.

Utah Montana "combo" hook

Harvard Shoes 3 Cities

This hook was in a "lot of 4" hooks that didn't sell. It was relisted separately as a "buy it now" for a good price. Always good to have an extra example.

Three hooks from "N" states...

An upgrade example of a hook I won a while ago...






Daniel McAllen & Co. received agricultural inspections in 1915, 1916 and 1917 being a dry goods purveyor.

A trio of Texas hooks

This nice rusted Houston hook came with a generic shoe horn:



Close up of Dallas folding hook:

A Trio of Denver, Colorado hooks

South Dakota a couple new ones

From Tripp and Canton, So. Dak. ...really tough to find any information on either company.

Oklahoma hook Enid, OK

Older style Los Angeles hook

From the 1909 Los Angeles City Directory:

Fit-Eeze SF hook

The earliest listing I could find for Fit-Eeze shoes in San Francisco was in the 1909 City Directory.

SF hook variant two-sided

The Three Rules Denver, Colo. hook

Clothing store at Broadway and Archer Streets in Denver, Colorado with brick corbeling and the signs: "Three Rules." circa 1900 - 1910
[picture and information courtesy of www.digital.denverlibrary.org]

South Omaha, Nebraska hook

I ended up with a couple of different Wahoo, Nebraska hooks (long story) so from time to time I pick up a Nebraska hook.

Denver hook variant on the way

This is a variant of a hook I came across a while ago. See this entry for comparison:
http://californiabuttonhooks.blogspot.com/2011/01/another-denver-hook-on-way.html





View of the Fontius Shoe Store at 834-836 16th Street (Symes Building) in Denver, Colorado; shows shoes in window displays; second floor business, African Ostrich Feather Company, displays hats in windows. Circa 1911 - 1917 (courtesy digital.denverlibrary.org)

Dos Palos, California folding hook

another Montana hook

Spokane hook

Coalinga hook

Haliburton & Martin Coalinga
Originally no more than a stop on the Southern Pacific Railroad known as "Coaling Station A" -- shortened to "Coaling A".

Delta, Colorado hook

Actually a good number of hooks hail from Colorado compared to other Western States such as Arizona, New Mexico or Utah.