Stories Collected While Living in France
The antique dealer called me over to her stand, she laughed and said, “Do you know what this is?”
I guessed.
The dealer shook her head then told me what I didn’t know.
French Husband winked, “I beat I know where that is going!”
He got that right.
What is it?
Tell me in the comment section, the first person to guess it correctly will win something that corresponds with it and the person with the most creative response will win a prize too.
belt buckle?
a zipper pull ??
It looks like a small button hook for gloves; possibly made to hang from a chatelaine???
A rug hook
A fisherwoman’s fish hook – to haul home her petit poisson on her belt.
I was going to say a button hook or some type of crochet mending tool.
How about a hook for your stockings? Looks like you could tuck the hook away (out of harms way) after your beloved removed your stockings??!!
Régal de pomofibulanomiste?
Button hook for shoes?!
Easy peasy! The top hooks up to the midpoint on the brassière and the hook is inserted to the top of the girdle to keep the old girl from slipping below the belly. It is a girdle holder- upper!
The last photo made me instantly think of a tiny elfin “Captain Hook” hand–ok, so I am in Halloween costume creating mode 🙂
The beauty and elegance of watching Mademoiselle attach her stocking to a garter belt. The hook is an ornamental garter belt tool, or a very convenient place for Monsieur to hang his powder wig during a moment of passion.
A hook to button your shoes.
A place to hang your eye glasses when your not using them.
I really think it is a tool to pull buttons through.
I also think it is a thing for a waist chatelaine, perhaps to hold yarn or string for darning? Or some sort of ear or dental cleaner.
Could it be something to do with a scale?
broach to hold spectacles
to hang a picture
Chastity Belt latch. It’s obvious :).
I also thought a travel button hook, for shoe buttons back in the days when little girls had boots that buttoned all the way up, with a whole row of tiny, fiddly buttons.
Door knocker?
a vintage travel accessory corset fastener?
At first I thought it was something to do with needlework, but then decided it was a zipper pull. It is pretty.
I wouldn’t have guessed !!!
Thanks to you and to your readers, I have learned what this “tire-bouton” is made for…
I bet you will tell us more about it !!!
My father had a modern version of this! It was for lacing up ice skates real tight.
I think it is a convenience device for a “Lady of the evening”. She wore it around her neck or waist and hooked her skirt on it to stay out of the way during a bout of passion. Oui?
a boot hook that also works as a necklace that a woman could hang her glasses on if she needed to take them off.
It looks short enough to be a watch hook.
Fancy garter for stockings??
A hook to hand your fan on while not in use.
Creative answer: An arm piece for a Captain-ess Hook (a lady pirate) ;-).
I meant to type: A hook to hanG your fan on
A button hook for the nanny to tote, for buttoning up the little darlings.
Fan hook? Whatever it is, it’s beautiful!
I think it’s a crochet hook 🙂
A button hook to pull the button through the buttonhole.
Maybe for women to hook up their bustier? Or to make the laces tighter?
At first I thought it was a button hook or a tightener for skates or skis, but it looks too large. I am guessing it is for a fish scale. The hook goes into the fish’s mouth and the round eye attaches to the scale. Or perhaps an escargot puller for when the snail doesn’t want to come out?
I think it is so pretty, so my fantasy self thinks it belong to the wee people. They had it attatched to a rope and would hang it on a star and swing. 🙂
Since it has a ring on top, it must attach to another hook on the wall. Perhaps it acts as an occasional hanger for a small item like a bag or belt. Instead of hiding it in a drawer, why not hang your lovely silk nightgown from this hook?
a hook to tighten the laces on a corset
A curtain hook for a dolls house!
I believe it is a retractable glove hook for the little buttons, in the form of a pendant/ fob. Cheryl
A hook to zip up your zippers!
Cheers,
Margaret B
xx
A folding button hook for your shoe, of course. My husband suggests it to be a medical tool used by a proctologist:)
hoof pick for a mini-pony.
ladies used to have this to pinch (gently) their love ones if they were looking some other lady..
Actually it is a charm that ladies hang on their purse to use to open their lover lovers zip….? (no zipper at the time I guess..)
oh yes! it is used to unmake the lace on the back of the long “brasiers” ladies used to use.
🙂
It’s a hook to push button(s) through the holes on shoes/boots.
It’s a hook to pull up a zipper.
There would be a ribbon or cord on the loop end and the hook would attach to the zipper foot.
So that if you were not fortunate enough to have
a darling husband to zip the back of your evening
Gown up…. Or a servant to assist you..voila ! You are zipped!
😉
Ginny
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Ginny Clarke
royal fishing hook 🙂 ?
It’s to tighten your shoes when they had high buttoned boot shoes and then you put that what you have on either a chain on your watch chain or a necklace around your neck. Probably the latter because this one looks so fem.
what a beautiful treasure, corey. i believe it is used to button hi top shoes. hope you put it up for sale. this contests are so much fun.
can’t wait for the next one.
An antique hook to hang your handbag on the table when you sit down!
I remember yours!!!
Worn in front to help cleavage show~
It probabaly is for buttoning your boots. I thought it might be for darning socks as they use to do that:)
U wear it around a your neck like a necklace and when you see a handsome French man you “get tour hook ” into him!
A button hook for clothing or a button hook for shoes.
button hook!
I believe it’s something to do with chastity or maintaining virginity?
I believe it’s something to do with chastity. It aids in maintaining virginity?
I believe it’s something to do with chastity. It aids in maintaining virginity?
Its either a shoe button hook or a glove hook – very collect worthy.
It could also be used to button your belly button closed. I think that would be a good purpose for all those protruding belly buttons.
Looks like an implement that was part of a woman’s chantelaine.
I think it is a hook to button your shoes or to button your gloves. Although I think it would be good to hang the “intimates” on for the evening.
Looks like a folding button hook to me.
Its definitely a hook,according to me but can’t get specific about its purpose.Can anyone tell its correct answer?
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