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This is a steel boot hook, used for pulling on boots, with a folding handle and a pricker at each end of the handle. It dates from the nineteenth century.

1 boot hook: metal (steel); fair condition

Victoria & Albert Museum No. M355, 1917., MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) – [pencil sketch]

1800-01-01 - 1899-12-31

Nineteenth century