RARE 18TH C. BUTTON HOLE CUTTER
Price: $115.00 free shipping
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Button hole cutter having a wooden handle, forged cutter and copper ferrel. 3 1/4” with a 1/2” wide blade. The clothing item needing a button hole would be placed over a block of wood and the cutter placed where the hole was wanted and tapped with a small hammer. Similar examples are shown in “Colonial Wrought Iron the Sorber Collection”, Don Plummer, pp. 98-100.