Button-hole cutter, Hancock, MA

Object ID:

1959.10876.1

Community:

Massachusetts, Hancock

Description

Steel buttonhole chisel, about 3/8" width, set into a between-centers turned maple handle with brass ferrule. Handle turned from stock in-the-round. Nicely made tool.

Massachusetts Hancock

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