Shaker Tailor's Buttonhole Cutter and a Goffering Iron

Description:

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.
Estimate $250-350


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