Sold for:
$461
$461
Shaker Tailor's Buttonhole Cutter and a Goffering Iron, buttonhole cutter, Canterbury, New Hampshire, 19th century, the iron/steel cutter with turned maple handle with scribe lines, squared shaft terminates in a paddle-shaped end with a sharp cutting edge, paper tag in old script reads "For cutting Tailor's Button Holes," lg. 4 3/8; the iron/steel goffering iron with curled finger ring handle, file-decorated hinge, and round irons, lg. 9 3/4 in. Note: See illustration in June Sprigg's By Shaker Hands (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), p. 94, for other versions of button hole cutters in the collection of the Hancock Shaker Village.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-06-04
