One photo shows doctors using button hooks to turn people's eyelids inside out so they could check for trachoma, a contagious eye disease.

A sterling Victorian button hook?

Clothes fastener.A button hook at one end makes it easier to fasten small buttons on blouses and sweaters.

To this day he can still find button hooks that ain't been used since World War I." "Which does not explain his actions.

It took him a moment to realize the object was a button hook.

You can remember when your mother tried to abort you with a button hook.

And while he may have mastered how to run the button hook, until this week he hadn't learned how to button his lip.

"No, a button hook for this," he said, holding up a shoe from the 1900's.

Use a button hook to button clothing.

He took from his pocket a button hook and bent it so as to make a pick, and after a little experimenting succeeded in turning the lock.