Grace Coolidge’s fashionable personally-owned and -used button hook. Ivory-handle button hook measures 7″ long, with the ivory handle beautifully and artistically engraved on one side, “G. C.,” and the other side trademarked, “Parisian Ivory—Loomeni France.” Accompanied by a 1982 detailed letter of provenance, on White House letterhead, by Lillian Rogers Parks, who was a best selling author as well as housekeeper and seamstress at the White House for over 30 years, from President Hoover through President Eisenhower. Letter reads, in part: “This button hook was owned and used by the First Lady, Grace Coolidge, for her high button shoes. The button hook is clearly engraved with her initials G. C.…The First Lady gave this to my Mama, Maggie Rogers, First Maid of the White House, because she knew my mother would appreciate it.” First Maid Maggie Rogers and Mrs. Coolidge were together often, frequently visiting and sewing in the first lady’s private White House quarters. In fine condition.
