Plastic thimbles from around the world, including bakelite, early plastic, Precision Plastics and Xylonite

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Advertising thimbles Most were made in Georgia, USA 15.5-16mm diameter see also Brown & Bigelow thimbles arranged alphabetically by item advertised

8/1427 = $3 Audre China & Gifts Original Collector Thimbles … with waving women motif 8/1526= $3 Buttons and Bows Farmers Markets Los Angeles … uu767 = $3 Clarissa School of Fashion … 8/1587 = $4 Creative Circle Needlecrafts June … uu1459 = $4 Drink 7up NEW 8/1297 = $3 Elsa Williams, Inc. uu1055 = $4 For Your Personal Thimbles – Contact Jean Gold … Ky … uu1073 = $4 Grants Fashion Fabrics 8/1314 = $3 Hazel Pearson Handicrafts Handicraft Book Publisher … Calif 8/1530 = $3 Sew You’ll Remember The Home Silk Shop Fine Fabrics & Notions 8/1593 = $4 The Famous Hoyt Holsters Coupeville, Washington 8/1568 = $4 Pianos & Organs King’s Music Co … Utah 8/1534 = $3 Lake Los Serranos Club Beautiful Living Chino … 8/1452 = $3 Lamar, Colorado Goose Hunting Capital of the World 15mm diameter 8/1595 = $3 Magnavox 8/1400 = $3 Mary McIntyre Needlework Houston, Texas 8/1575 = $4 The Thimble Couture Cohama Fabrics Stain Protected by Du Pont ZE-PEL © uu1427 = $2 Thimbles Only…La Crescenta…Sewlong and Hurry back NEW uu1062 = $2 Thimbles Only/Thimble Talk … San Diego CA 8/672 = $2 Thumbelina Needlework Solvang CA 8/1586 = $4 Tulca Lake, California Home of Bob Hope uu1430 = $2 de Vingerhoed Netherlands … image of a cotton reel NEW 8/1293 = $3 White Rock with an outline of the rock? older 17mm diameter

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Brown & Bigelow St PAUL MINNESOTA USA

8/928 = $4 Campaign Bert L. Swezea for County Commissioner 15mm diameter 8/1527 = $3 Advertising Butter-Nut The Coffee Delicious 15mm diameter - '25’ graffiti’d on apex - 8/1581 = $4 Advertising Perfect for Household Cleaning Nap Sheen … Beaver Falls … 15mm diameter - small chip on apex rim - 8/1583 = $4 Advertising Universal Insulation Corp … Aluminum Windows 15mm diameter - some staining - uu1046 = $9 Advertising Use Watkins Products 1940s 15mm diameter - apex worn -

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Campaign thimbles for the USA These were made in Georgia, USA. 15.5-16mm diameter see also: Brown & Bigelow thimbles

8/664 = $2 Joe Yoder Your County Auditor 8/978 = $10 George Wallace for President ‘76’ 8/983 = $10 Elect Reagan President 1980 The people’s choice - lettering quite rubbed - 8/986 = $3 Sew it up with Southard for Sheriff - very light lettering - a200 = $7 Plains Ga. Home of Jimmy Carter - some wear to lettering -

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Charles Iles // Iles & Gomms ENGLAND

a412 = $4 size 3 15mm diameter Non-flam a401 = $4 size 4 16mm diameter Non-flam - out of round -

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Commemorative thimbles Most were made in Georgia, USA 15.5-16mm diameter to be a commemorative, a date has to be included arranged in date order see also: Campaign Thimbles

8/1423 = $3 1872 – 1972 Lost Nation, Iowa 52254 The Only Nation our Navy Never Visits 8/1532 = $3 Jennifer Michelle Buss Born: August 18, 1974 … with baby motif? 8/1298 = $3 Thimblers of Oklahoma T.O.O. – Oct. 15 1977 outline of the state on verso 8/1316 = $3 Thimble Guild * Poems * Chgo ‘78 8/1573 = $4 T.C.I. Rules in 1980 Glad you came Joyce Hughes-Stephens … California a ‘Joyce’ thimble motif on verso 8/1520 = $3 Virginia Chandler … Collector #1650 … 1981 8/1514 = $4 VII Needlework Exhibit May 5-21 1983 with ‘The Golden Thimble’ motif 8/916 = $3 A L1011 lady bug helped us to fly … Philadelphia and TCI … Joyce & Bob Stephens … 1984 uu1060 = $3 Greetings S.C.T.C. August 1988 with thimble logo - rubbed - uu1457 = $2 TCI 1988 Spokane Washington - lettering pale - NEW uu1458 = $2 Nimble Fingers Thimble Club Welcomes you to TCI Convention ’88 Spokane, Wash. NEW uu1056 = $4 Collectible Modern Thimbles Jean Shoup California Spokane ‘88’ uu1059 = $3 Jean Shoup “Out of Africa” … 1990 uu1465 = $4 Ohio Thimble Seekers 10th anniversary 1982-1992 NEW

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Early plastic thimbles Made of some of the earliest English plastic Sturdy collectors' items from a long gone era They are rarely marked with 'Made in England' - when they are, they are not as old as the others Excellent for sewing

a413= $4 size 0 Made in England 17.5mm diameter - mint condition - a395= $4 size 2 15mm diameter - mint condition - a403= $4 size 2 15.5mm diameter - mint condition - a404= $4 size 2 Made in England a410= $4 darker apex 14mm diameter - mint condition -

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Personalised thimbles arranged alphabetically by the first name of the collector Does anyone know if there is a business who still makes these? As I understand, they were last produced in Georgia, USA in the 1990s 15.5-16mm diameter

8/1289 = $3 Alice B Strohmeyer … Thimbles & Tatting Shuttles 8/1592 = $4 I’m Trailing Linda Buss for Eastern Star J Audre Stephens Glendale … star motif on verso 8/1589 = $4 Collect Thimbles for Romance and History says Bernadine Biske … Michigan 8/554 = $2 Thimbling Betty C Kraviecki … Ca. 8/1495 = $3 Orchid Hollow “Old Town” Betty Jo Miller 8/1502 = $3 Orchid Hollow “Old Town” Betty Jo Miller wrapped in cellophane with cream, unknown powder 8/1513 = $3 Happiness is sharing my 5,000 thimbles with you Betty Jo Miller … 8/1576 = $4 "The Thimble Man” Bob Hum San Diego … 8/1501 = $3 Doris Nelson Thimble Collector … 8/1503 = $3 Dorothy Chambers Collector of Thimbles Baltimore … 8/1497 = $3 “Thimbles our Heritage” Dorothy Draper Glendale … 8/941 = $3 Estelle Zalkin … Miami Beach 8/1519 = $3 Fadine Williams Thimble Collector Abilene … 8/1499 = $3 Thimble Collector from the Centennial State Geneva G Mosher, Lamar … 8/1498 = $3 Pleasant Thimbling Times Helen Morga Thimble Collector 8/1504 = $3 T.C.I. Booster Idabelle Forker Des Moines … 8/993 = $3 Jeanne Macalister Lady Glenbarr … Scotland 8/1437 = $16 Let’s be Thimble Friends Jo Anne Rath … housed in sweet grass lidded basket 42mm 8/940 = $3 Joyce Hughes-Stephens thimbles & lady bugs … California 8/1584 = $4 Roses R Red Violets R Blue Here’s a Thimble Just 4 U Joyce Hughes-Stephens Burbank … ‘Joyce’ thimble motif on verso 8/1569 = $4 Juanita Elkins … Mich … 8/1300 = $2 Judy Mae Erven … Findley … 8/984 = $3 Leona M Coad … Houston … with thimble logo and map Houston Thimble Group 8/1518 = $3 The Thimble Collector Lora Wilkinson … Oklahoma City … 8/1540 = $3 Marian Lipsius “A Thimble Collector” from Tujunga … 8/1524 = $3 Mary Warner … Fullerton … uu1432 = $3 Mignon S Jeffords … Spartanburg … NEW 8/1481 = $3 Norma L Rolla Thimble Collector Bellevue … 8/962 = $3 The Nimble Thimble Pat Colern … New York 8/936 = $3 Pearl Hazen collector of thimbles … Pittsburgh … - lettering rubbed - 8/1290 = $3 Thimbles mean fun and friends to Priscilla Stoffel … Baltimore … 8/1315 = $3 Rita L. Scollo Thimble Collector Norwood … 8/938 = $3 I’d rather be thimbling Roberta Kennedy … Calif 8/1535 = $3 Collector Ruby P Gallacher Salt Lake City … 8/1521 = $3 "Thimbling is ‘Sew’ Much Fun Sandy McFadyen … 8/1574 = $4 Sharon Kay Henning Santa Barbara … 8/1594 = $4 der finger hut Sammpler Sue Hammer … Ohio … 8/926 = $3 "Thimble friend" Vie Downard … Ohio 8/1533 = $3 Love the Greatest Thing Virginia B Webster … with rose motif 8/1572 = $4 Wanda Y Kauffman Thimble Collector … Iowa … uu1468 = $3 Willy Swart Vingerhoeden verzamelaarster Nederland NEW

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Precision Plastics SYDNEY,AUSTRALIA

Featured in Thimbles of Australia plate 37 Find out more about my book These thimbles were last produced in 1978. Size 0 largest - Size 7 smallest Do you have a full range of sizes? The thimbles numbered with 'q' are those from World War II They were left over from those to be placed in Australian soldiers' sewing kits/housewives/hussifs and they have never been used q3 / q4 = $5 each size 1 q9 / q10 / q11 = $5 each size 1 8/1097 = $4 size 2 15mm diameter uu797 = $4 size 3 15mm diameter

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Xylonite thimbles lettering 'Made in England' sometimes occurs on the thimbles - these would have been made later than those without that lettering

a402 = $4 Made in England size 0 18mm diameter a409 = $4 size 2 bm190 = $2 size 3 15mm diameter - well-used apex - - tiny chip on inside rim - bm80 = $4 15mm diameter

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Other plastic thimbles

a406 = $4 England size 3 15mm diameter 8/1312 = $3 S.C.T.C. Southern California Thimble Collectors … 8/1306 = $3 Garden State Thimblers with a leaf/flower 8/1317 = $2 Serve the Lord with gladness Ps. 100:2… 8/1411 = $3 Three Rivers Thimblers Pittsburgh, Pa 8/1432 = $3 Bay Area Thimble Society with Bat motif 8/1500 = $2 JCC 14:6 Jize cee ma c gbo, ke c da unknown language 10/96 = $11 Nail-shaped these were handed out in the UK by the ‘Better Wear’ brush men in 1960s - very tiny burn mark on back rim possibly testing for ivory? - previous owner purchased in 1976 a512 = $11 Nail-shaped these were handed out in the UK by the ‘Better Wear’ brush men in 1960s - streak on nail/grubby - uu1066 = $3 Ohio Valley Thimblers uu1071 = $3 ESTC with state's outline uu1072 = $4 Freunde des Fingerhuts/Friends of the Thimble… Creglingen

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Last updated 10 February 2012

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