Beatrix Potter characters This set of six thimbles featuring Beatrix Potter characters were issued by Wedgwood in 1983. Each character is named on the character on the front. They are marked with © Frederick Warne 1983 on the verso, with the Wedgwood Bone China backstamp. There is no gold trim at the rim. This is the verso of each of these thimbles. Benjamin Bunny Flopsy Bunnies Jemima Puddle Duck Peter Rabbit Tailor of Gloucester Tiggy Winkle

Flowers Are some of these from the tableware patterns? Notice that most of these floral designs have no gold painted rim violets Kutani Crane flower Rosedale Pink Hathaway Mirabelle

Tableware designs Ice rose Kutani Crane Osborne Strawberry

The Wedgwood Museum Thimble Collection This set of 24 thimbles, commissioned by the Thimble Collectors Club [TCC], Chessington, UK, prior to 1997, contains 22 bone china and 2 jasperware thimbles [these two are featured on my Wedgwood jasperware page]. The designs are from classic designs in the Wedgwood archives. Do you know exactly when they were issued, as there is no date on the certificate? The thimbles were named by TCC on their advertising material and issued in batches of four, every two months. Only a few are named in TCC's advertising blurb - do you know the names of the rest? A distinctive feature of this set is the thicker than usual band of gold handpainted around the rim. the certificates of authenticity and invitation to purchase Indian Hawthorn Sprig Lindisfarne Frog Crest Etruscan Old London Grape Chinese Figures

Handpainted A new addition (2005 - ) to the Wedgwood china thimble suite for collectors, are the handpainted thimbles that are painted at the Wedgwood Visitors Centre and only available for purchase to visitors to the WVC. Jon French is a master painter - who specialises in painting thimbles, miniature portraits and enamel boxes- and he employed in the Visitors Centre and visitors can watch these miniature wonders evolve. Being handpainted, no two are the same. Contact Jon Smith at the Wedgwood Visitors Centre as he accepts special thimble commissions. He has developed a wonderful handpainted range of the portraits of the Kings and Queens of England, done in the same way as the Nelson portrait below. Jon French's signature bicentenary of Lord Horatio Nelson 2005 the first handpainted Wedgwood china thimble ever HM Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birthday 2006 photo The Thimble Guild Abolition of Slavery 2007 There is an exhibition at the Wedgwood Visitors Centre during 2007 to commemorate the Abolition of Slavery's bicentenary 1807 to see a similar design Wedgwood Jasperware thimbles 'Rough Seas' 2007 fairies scene 2007 lustre

Others Celtic Designs This pair of thimbles has a very non-Wedgwood shape Their cream coloured background also makes them very different from earlier Wedgwood bone china thimbles. Book of Kells Lindisfarne Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson Royal wedding July 1986 there are six thimbles in this set the photos show the fronts and backs of the full set photo S Burt Learn more about British Royalty on thimbles Thimble Collectors Club Playful Kittens with black kitten on the verso Otters Learn more about Thimble Collectors Club thimbles

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Contributors
Linda Brown - Sue Burt - Sarah Constantine - Lin Heggs - Debby Hoover - Jim Farrell
Susan Johnson - Gai Sdao - Paul Smith

This listing of Wedgwood Bone China Thimbles does not purport to be complete or accurate in all aspects.
Rather it invites comment and contribution to add to our knowledge. My thanks to the contributors.