Three Months Worth of New Hooks

Walla Walla, Washington

San Francisco glove hook

This hook design was used for shirt buttons as well, often used by those who dealt in Mens' Furnishings.

Houston, Texas hook

Mace, Idaho hook

This is a very nice mint condition hook. Idaho hooks don't come up too often these days.

1890s North Dakota hook

This is one I've had my eye on for a while. The seller agreed to come down in price substantially. The Dakota shoe sellers seem to have preferred the folding hooks. This is a very nice 1890s vintage hook. "High GradeS Shoes"...

Safford Arizona hook

Wasn't expecting to find a third Arizona hook anytime soon, but surprise surprise - a very nice one was added to the collection today.

another Escondido, California hook

Picked this up quite recently. Didn't figure on finding a second hook from Escondido.

New Denver hook

Denver has numerous different hooks and often multiple examples of each hook are available over time. This one is new to me.

More Los Angeles hooks

A nice 3-city Innes hook and yet another Wetherby.

San Jose, Long Beach, San Francisco

 Patek & Co. were in business in San Francisco during the early part of the 20th century.

Eagleson & Co.

Eagleson & Co. was in business in both San Francisco and Los Angeles. This shirt button hook was likely given away at both locations since it is without a city embossed upon it.

And from the Langley's SFCD from 1886 -

Sommer & Kaufmann San Francisco

This is the older 1890s style fancy hook. Although this is a duplicate, it is in fine condition and the price was right.

Harris & Frank Los Angeles folder

Meier & Frank's Store Portland, Ore.

Wetherby Kayser Shoe Company

This is another duplicate of this 1890s vintage button hook from Los Angeles. These are comparatively common, and come in different styles.

Ely, Nevada shirt button hook

There were two Ely Nevada hooks up on ebay at the same time offered by the same seller. Unfortunately I was only the winning bidder on one of them. Nevada hooks are always tough with so many Nevada memorabilia collectors in competition.

Rosenthal's Portland

Ft. Scott, Kansas Queen Quality Shoes

Glaze and Lewis, Sole Agency, Ft. Scott, Kans. This particular hook style was apparently offered by Queen Quality Shoes to various small shoe stores that carried their brand. The hooks are always the same design/style. "Queen Quality Shoes" being embossed on one side, with the store info on the other. Kansas isn't really Western but once in a while I pick up Nebraska or Kansas hooks if they have a cool town name.

Grand Junction, Colorado

San Diego combo hook

one of the more common hooks from San Francisco

I have three or four variants from the Philadelphia Shoe Store in SF. Here is most likely a duplicate I recently acquired.

"new" Watsonville, California hook

A recent acquisition originally hailing from Watsonville, California.

Opinion and Philosophy regarding my blog

Eventually it will be nice to get pictures up of all the button hooks meant to be featured on this blog. After a broken computer and a broken leg in the Autumn of 2011, I was able to re-get-into this blog and continue updating as I have time. We all have seen blogs where they start out with an interesting premise, do several updates and then fade into the ethernet where lack of time, motivation and energy mix to create what seems like an abandoned blog - for all intents and purposes. This button hook blog being under the sole proprietorship of the sole collector of button hooks (at least in the US), makes me keep up the regular posts as no one else is available to contribute to this blog. There are no comments, there are no fellow collectors, and there may not be any readers! So perhaps with responsibility only to myself, I have only myself to be responsible to! Thus I try to keep this blog going on a regular basis.

The Original Nordstrom's

This is a somewhat later variant from my first Nordstrom's hook.

San Francsico variant hook

Cahn - Nickelburg Company two-sided variant. The first hook I found from this company has all the information embossed on one side of the hook. See third and fourth picture below.