Rare Hawaii Territory hook

As always the local state territory collectors make this type of hook hard to win. But win I did. I never thought I'd end up with both Alaska and Hawaii hooks in my collection. Wyoming remains the one Western state I have not seen a button hook from.

Mont. variant Hennessy's

Sommer & Kaufman San Francisco

Another example of this company's folding hook.

Hillsboro, Texas ?

This was found at a Dallas estate sale...

Loveland, Colorado

Bullock's Los Angeles

Here is a larger size hook from the wonderful town of Los Angeles back when it was more of a town.

Seattle folding hook

Salinas Shoe Factory

Here is another bottle opener/hook combination tool I picked up some time ago.

Another South Dakota folding hook shoe horn combination

From White, So. Dak.

Another shirt button hook from Los Angeles

This is the patented Daisy style hook.

Here is a hook I won some time ago, but never got around to posting. From Washington state.

This is a rare hook I picked up recently. My second Arizona hook and my first territorial hook from Arizona. The Goldwater family got their start early in Arizona's history.

My first hook from none other than Escondido, California.

Los Angeles/Sacramento folder with shoe horn

Philadelphia Shoe Store shoe horn

This is a nice vintage 1910s shoe horn.

Los Angeles opener button hook combo

Here is an interesting Los Angeles opener with button hook.

Here is a typically small shirt button hook given away by mens' haberdasheries.

Thomas and Konawa, Okla. hooks

Don't see too many button hooks from either Oklahoma or Texas. But as luck would have it, two Oklahoma hooks were recently added to the collection.

Another shield folding hook and horn. From the Hotel Portland this time. A close up of the shield.

Washington State hook.

Two recent hooks from Montana.

A surprising third variant from San Francisco's Philadelphia Shoe Store was acquired quite recently for the collection.

Here is the earliest variant of Sommer & Kaufmann that I've found, in the 1890s hook style.

From San Francisco to Los Angeles

A brochure from Summer & Kaufmann San Francisco

I believe this Los Angeles hook might well be a duplicate.

Pacific Northwest flood...

Here finally is the third variant hook from C.H. Baker, a folder.

Deering Bros. San Francisco

Frank Vitousek Healdsburg, California

Glaser Shoe Co. San Francisco

First button hook of this style I've seen from San Francisco.