an agate & chrome glove hook in the Art Deco style

Item reference: 3337
Dimensions: 4 inches overall
Condition: good antique original
Price: £15 GB
Status: Sold

an antique buttonhook with “tigers eye” agate handle

Item reference: 3334
Dimensions: 6 and 1/4 inches overall
Condition: good antique original
Price: £25 GB
Status: Sold

a vintage celluloid handled “jockey” buttonhook

Item reference: 2977
Dimensions: 5 and 1/2 inches overall
Condition: average to good
Price: £12 GB
Status: Sold

a Christmas cracker folding mini glove hook with silver & black scales

Item reference: 3233
Dimensions: 1 inch overall
Condition: good original
Price: £12 GB
Status: Sold

a Victorian silver handled golf club buttonhook with agate inserts to the club face by Adie & Lovekin. It is hallmarked A&LL Chester 1897. All previous known golf clubs by Adie & Lovekin are from 1907 to 1913 and assayed in Birmingham but none with agate inserts so this is a rare item indeed

Item reference: 3220
Dimensions: 5 inches overall
Condition: slight distortion to the agate inlay
Price: £35 GB
Status: Sold

a Victorian Scottish pebble & silver glove buttonhook by Adie & Lovekin, established in 1879 at Regent Street, Birmingham. Scottish agates were popularised by Queen Victoria after Prince Albert found agate “pebbles” in the highland burns and had them made into jewellery for his Queen. It is hallmarked for Birmingham 1894

Item reference: 2968
Dimensions: 2 and 1/4 inches overall
Condition: good original
Price: £35 GB
Status: Sold

a figural silver handled buttonhook of a Court Jester by Crisford & Norris,  established in 1896 at 118 Vyse Street, Birmingham. The hallmark is rubbed but similar examples are catalogued by The Buttonhook Society for Birmingham 1908/9

Item reference: 2965
Dimensions: 5 and 3/4 inches overall
Condition: good original
Price: £45 GB
Status: Sold

a figural silver handled buttonhook of a duck emerging from rushes by  Crisford & Norris,  established in 1896 at 118 Vyse Street, Birmingham. It is hallmarked for Birmingham 1907. There are 3 sizes of this buttonhook of which  this is the largest example

Item reference: 3006
Dimensions: 9 inches overall
Condition: very good definition of the silver handle indicating little wear
Price: £75 GB
Status: Sold

a miniature glove hook with pale lemon Citrine stone

Item reference: 3240
Dimensions: 1 and 5/8 inches overall
Condition: good original
Price: £25 GB
Status: Sold

a silver handled glove hook inset with miscellaneous agate stones

Item reference: 3231
Dimensions: 2 and 3/4 inches overall
Condition: good original
Price: £28 GB
Status: Sold