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

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Advertising thimbles see also Brown & Bigelow thimbles arranged alphabetically by item advertised

8/1510 = $3 USA American 16mm diameter 8/1427 = $4 USA Audre China & Gifts Original Collector Thimbles … with waving women motif 16mm diameter 8/1526= $4 USA Buttons and Bows Farmers Markets Los Angeles … 16mm diameter uu767 = $4 USA Clarissa School of Fashion … 16mm diameter 8/1531= $5 USA Drink Coca-Cola 16mm diameter 8/1587 = $4 USA Creative Circle Needlecrafts June … 16mm diameter 8/1297 = $4 USA Elsa Williams, Inc. 16mm diameter 8/1515 = $4 USA The Golden Thimble … Findlay … 16mm diameter 8/1314 = $4 USA Hazel Pearson Handicrafts Handicraft Book Publisher … Calif 16mm diameter 8/1530 = $4 USA Sew You’ll Remember The Home Silk Shop Fine Fabrics & Notions 16mm diameter 8/1593 = $4 USA The Famous Hoyt Holsters Coupeville, Washington 16mm diameter 8/1568 = $4 USA Pianos & Organs King’s Music Co … Utah 16mm diameter 8/1534 = $4 USA Lake Los Serranos Club Beautiful Living Chino … 16mm diameter 8/1452 = $4 USA Lamar, Colorado Goose Hunting Capital of the World 15mm diameter 8/1595 = $3 USA Magnavox 16mm diameter 8/1400 = $4 USA Mary McIntyre Needlework Houston, Texas 16mm diameter 8/1599 = $4 USA A Joy to Collect A Gift from Shopping Service 16mm diameter 8/964 = $3 USA Sunshine Station Hickory NC … 16mm diameter 8/537 = $4 USA Thimble Collectors for Price and Information Write Harold Bellinger … Ill. 16mm diameter 8/1575 = $4 USA The Thimble Couture Cohama Fabrics Stain Protected by Du Pont ZE-PEL © 16mm diameter 8/1286 = $3 each USA Thimbles Only … La Crescenta … 16mm diameter bk526 // bk527 // bk528 = $2 each USA Thimbles Only/Thimble Talk … San Diego CA 15.5mm diameter 8/672 = $4 USA Thumbelina Needlework Solvang CA 16mm diameter 8/1586 = $4 USA Tulca Lake, California Home of Bob Hope 16mm diameter 8/1291 = $3 USA de Vingerhoed Nederland … with a thimble and Israel on verso 16mm diameter 8/1293 = $4 USA White Rock with an outline of the rock? older 17mm diameter

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Australian Consolidated Industries or Australian Group Manufacturers AUSTRALIA

uu887 = $10 no maker's mark interestingly, there is a self thread at the inner rim of the apex probably made for army hussifs in WWII 19mm diameter

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Bakelite thimbles?

hh76 = $2 size 2 16mm diameter hh280 = $3 size 2 18mm diameter - out of round - - well used - bk1134 = $3 size 4 15mm diameter 17/64 = $2 size 5 15mm diameter hh380 = $3 18mm diameter - out of round -

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Brown & Bigelow St PAUL MINNESOTA USA

8/928 = $5 Campaign Bert L. Swezea for County Commissioner 15mm diameter 8/1527 = $4 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 - 8/1512 = $10 Advertising Necchi Elna … 15mm diameter 8/1583 = $5 Advertising Universal Insulation Corp … Aluminum Windows 15mm diameter - some staining -

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Campaign thimbles for the USA see also: Brown & Bigelow thimbles

8/664 = $3 USA Joe Yoder Your County Auditor 16mm diameter 8/978 = $13 USA George Wallace for President ‘76’ 16mm diameter 8/983 = $13 USA Elect Reagan President 1980 The people’s choice 16mm diameter - lettering quite rubbed - 8/986 = $3 USA Sew it up with Southard for Sheriff 16mm diameter - very light lettering - 8/1284 = $4 USA Sew it up with Southard for Sheriff 16mm diameter a200 = $8 USA Plains Ga. Home of Jimmy Carter 16mm diameter - some wear to lettering -

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Christmas thimble ornaments

uu768 = $6 Chinese/USA Avon Sculpted by Michael Arike Happy Holidays 45mm height 8/1485 = $12 Sri Lanka/USA Hallmark Keepsake Precocious Tink 2006 boxed

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Coated plastic phimbles SOUTH AFRICA

uu932 = $1 gilt-coated Kirstenbosch uu933 = $1 copper-coated Tafelberg/Table Mountain

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Commemorative thimbles to be a commemorative, a date has to be included arranged in date order see also: Campaign Thimbles

8/1423 = $4 USA 1872 – 1972 Lost Nation, Iowa 52254 The Only Nation our Navy Never Visits 16mm diameter 8/1532 = $4 USA Jennifer Michelle Buss Born: August 18, 1974 … with baby motif? 16mm diameter 8/1298 = $4 USA Thimblers of Oklahoma T.O.O. – Oct. 15 1977 outline of the state on verso 16mm diameter 8/1511 = $4 USA 1972-1977 Robin’s Nest Amy – Ruth – Frances – Lucilla – Pandora – Carol 16mm diameter 8/1316 = $4 USA Thimble Guild * Poems * Chgo ‘78’ 16mm diameter 8/1573 = $4 USA T.C.I. Rules in 1980 Glad you came Joyce Hughes-Stephens … California 16mm diameter a ‘Joyce’ thimble motif on verso 8/1520 = $4 USA Virginia Chandler … Collector #1650 … 1981 16mm diameter 8/1397 = $4 USA Just “thimbling” around in Dearborn MI, 1982 Jean W. Shoup … 16mm diameter 8/1514 = $5 USA VII Needlework Exhibit May 5-21 1983 with ‘The Golden Thimble’ motif 16mm diameter 8/916 = $4 USA A L1011 lady bug helped us to fly … Philadelphia and TCI … Joyce & Bob Stephens … 1984 16mm diameter 8/917 = $4 USA Jean Shoup “Out of Africa” …1990 16mm diameter uu580 // 8/1420 = $3 each USA DMWC May Day 1990 16mm diameter

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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

19/131= $4 size 0 18.5mm diameter - out of round - a413= $4 size 0 Made in England 17.5mm diameter - mint condition - NEW 19/132= $4 size 1 16.5mm diameter - out of round - 19/140= $4 size 1 16mm diameter 19/161= $4 size 1 Made in England 17mm diameter 19/162= $3 size 1 16mm diameter 19/133= $3 size 2 16.5mm diameter - hole in apex - 19/138= $3 size 2 Made in England 16mm diameter - out of round - - grubby - 19/164= $4 size 2 Made in England 16.5mm diameter a395= $4 size 2 15mm diameter - mint condition - NEW a403= $4 size 2 15.5mm diameter - mint condition - NEW a404= $4 size 2 Made in England 16mm diameter NEW 19/139= $4 size 3 Made in England 16mm diameter bk1135 = $2 16mm diameter - mint condition - a410= $4 darker apex 14mm diameter NEW - mint condition -

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Fingerguards

19/122 = $7 Celluloid older type with curled-over edge - well used - 19/126 = $8 Celluloid with striated pattern older type with curled-over edge 19/129 = $7 Celluloid

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Iles & Gomms ENGLAND

19/155 = $4 size 2 17mm diameter Non-flam a412 = $4 size 3 15mm diameter Non-flam NEW 19/154 = $4 size 4 15mm diameter Non-flam - rim burnt - a401 = $4 size 4 16mm diameter Non-flam - out of round - NEW 19/152 = $2 16mm diameter Non-flam - rim out of shape -

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Personalised thimbles arranged alphabetically by the first name of the collector

8/1289 = $4 USA Alice B Strohmeyer … Thimbles & Tatting Shuttles 16mm diameter 8/1592 = $4 USA I’m Trailing Linda Buss for Eastern Star J Audre Stephens Glendale … star motif on verso 16mm diameter 8/512 = $3 USA Barbara A Averell “thimble collector” … PA 16mm diameter 8/1589 = $4 USA Collect Thimbles for Romance and History says Bernadine Biske … Michigan 16mm diameter 8/540 = $3 USA Bettee Gourd thimble collector … Conn. 16mm diameter 8/554 = $3 USA Thimbling Betty C Kraviecki … Ca. 16mm diameter 8/1295 = $4 USA Thimble – Thimble Who’s got the thimbles Betty Jo Miller … 16mm diameter 8/1495 = $4 USA Orchid Hollow “Old Town” Betty Jo Miller 16mm diameter 8/1502 = $4 USA Orchid Hollow “Old Town” Betty Jo Miller wrapped in cellophane with cream, unknown powder 16mm diameter 8/1513 = $4 USA Happiness is sharing my 5,000 thimbles with you Betty Jo Miller … 16mm diameter 8/1576 = $4 USA "The Thimble Man” Bob Hum San Diego … 16mm diameter 8/544 = $3 USA Greetings from the Thimble Islands Dickey Everson … Connecticut 16mm diameter 8/1501 = $4 USA Doris Nelson Thimble Collector … 16mm diameter 8/1503 = $4 USA Dorothy Chambers Collector of Thimbles Baltimore … 16mm diameter 8/1497 = $4 USA “Thimbles our Heritage” Dorothy Draper Glendale … 16mm diameter 8/538 = $3 USA Thimble collector Edyth Geller … NY. 16mm diameter 8/941 = $4 USA Estelle Zalkin … Miami Beach Fla 16mm diameter 8/1311 = $4 USA Estelle Zalkin … Miami Beach Fla 16mm diameter 8/1519 = $4 USA Fadine Williams Thimble Collector Abilene, Texas … 16mm diameter 8/1499 = $4 USA Thimble Collector from the Centennial State Geneva G Mosher, Lamar … 16mm diameter 8/536 = $3 USA The nimble thimbler Grace L Blackburn … Calif. 16mm diameter 8/1498 = $4 USA Pleasant Thimbling Times Helen Morga Thimble Collector 16mm diameter 8/1496 = $4 USA "Happy Thimbling” Idabelle Forker Des Moines … 16mm diameter 8/1504 = $4 USA T.C.I. Booster Idabelle Forker Des Moines … 16mm diameter 8/993 = $4 USA Jeanne Macalister Lady Glenbarr … Scotland 16mm diameter 8/545 = $3 USA Jennifer Michelle Buss Linda Sue Buss Joyce Hughes-Stephens Thelma Myrtle-Hughes 16mm diameter 8/1303 = $4 USA Let’s be thimble friends Jo Anne Rath…Elizabeth N.J … 16mm diameter 8/1437 = $20 USA Let’s be Thimble Friends Jo Anne Rath … 16mm diameter housed in sweet grass lidded basket 42mm 8/931 = $4 USA Joyce Hughes-Stephens thimbles & lady bugs … California 16mm diameter 8/940 = $4 USA Joyce Hughes-Stephens thimbles & lady bugs … California 16mm diameter 8/1584 = $4 USA Roses R Red Violets R Blue Here’s a Thimble Just 4 U Joyce Hughes-Stephens Burbank … ‘Joyce’ thimble motif on verso 16mm diameter 8/1569 = $4 USA Juanita Elkins … Mich … 16mm diameter 8/543 = $3 USA Judy Mae Erven … Ohio 16mm diameter 8/1300 = $3 USA Judy Mae Erven … Findley Ohio … 16mm diameter 8/1598 = $4 USA "Happiness is a Sterling” Kathy John … Carlsbad … 16mm diameter 8/984 = $4 USA Leona M Coad … Houston, Texas with thimble logo and map Houston Thimble Group 16mm diameter 8/1320 = $4 USA Thimbles are my thing Lettie Williams Glendale … 16mm diameter 8/1529 = $4 USA This Buss Stops for Thimbles Linda Sue Buss with red heart motif 16mm diameter 8/1518 = $4 USA The Thimble Collector Lora Wilkinson … Oklahoma City … 16mm diameter 8/1494 = $4 USA A Kiss from “Peter Pan” Louise F. Dellone … Ohio … 16mm diameter 8/915 = $4 USA Marian Lipsius Tujunga Calif … 16mm diameter 8/1540 = $4 USA Marian Lipsius “A Thimble Collector” from Tujunga … 16mm diameter 8/552 = $3 USA Mary Frances Cataney … PA. 16mm diameter 8/1524 = $4 USA Mary Warner … Fullerton … 16mm diameter 8/1580 = $4 USA Mignon S Jeffords … Spartanburg … 16mm diameter 8/516 = $3 USA Natalie B Borg thimble collector … Conn. 16mm diameter 8/1481 = $4 USA Norma L Rolla Thimble Collector Bellevue, Wash. … 16mm diameter 8/962 = $4 USA The Nimble Thimble Pat Colern … New York 16mm diameter 8/936 = $4 USA Pearl Hazen collector of thimbles … Pittsburgh PA … 16mm diameter - lettering rubbed - 8/1290 = $4 USA Thimbles mean fun and friends to Priscilla Stoffel … Baltimore … 16mm diameter 8/1315 = $4 USA Rita L. Scollo Thimble Collector Norwood … 16mm diameter 8/938 = $4 USA I’d rather be thimbling Roberta Kennedy … Calif 16mm diameter 8/1535 = $4 USA Collector Ruby P Gallacher Salt Lake City Utah 16mm diameter 8/1521 = $4 USA "Thimbling is ‘Sew’ Much Fun Sandy McFadyen … 16mm diameter 8/1574 = $4 USA Sharon Kay Henning Santa Barbara … 16mm diameter 8/1594 = $4 USA der finger hut Sammpler Sue Hammer … Ohio … 16mm diameter 8/1537 = $4 USA Thimble Collecting Cat, Vera Catlow Crestline … with cat motif 16mm diameter 8/926 = $4 USA "Thimble friend" Vie Downard … Ohio 16mm diameter 8/1533 = $4 USA Love the Greatest Thing Virginia B Webster … with rose motif 16mm diameter 8/1572 = $4 USA Wanda Y Kauffman Thimble Collector … Iowa … 16mm diameter

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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 bk515 = $4 size 0 17mm diameter - grubby - 17/67 = $5 size 1 16.5mm diameter 19/118 = $5 size 1 16mm diameter 19/119 = $5 size 1 16mm diameter 19/120 = $4 size 1 16mm diameter - red staining on apex - q2/ q3 / q4 = $5 each size 1 16mm diameter q9/ q10 / q11 = $5 each size 1 q12 = $2 16mm diameter - surface crack - uu773 = $4 size 1 16mm diameter - apex worn - 8/1097 = $5 size 2 15mm diameter a166 = $3 size 3 14mm diameter - seeming chip on apex but not holed - uu797 = $5 size 3 15mm diameter bk1385 = $5 size 4 14mm diameter bk1132 = $5 size 5 13mm diameter bk1139 = $5 size 5 13mm diameter bk1140 = $5 size 5 13mm diameter 15/32 = $5 size 6 12mm diameter 19/170 = $5 size 6 12.5mm diameter 17/66 = $5 size 7 12mm diameter

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Xylonite thimbles The Halex thimbles were made by the British Xylonite Company in England from 1898 They are only marked with the word "Halex" and sometimes a size # - 'Made in England' sometimes occurs on the thimble - these would have been made later than those without that lettering

19/166 = $7 Halex size 0 17.5mm diameter 8/879 = $7 Halex size 1 16mm diameter bk511 = $6 Halex size 1 17mm diameter -some of the indents have worn smooth giving a nice patina - a398 = $6 Halex size 3 paler colour apex 16mm diameter NEW 17/41 = $8 Halex size 4 15mm diameter bm194 = $4 Halex size 5 13mm diameter - chip off outer rim - a402 = $5 Made in England size 0 18mm diameter NEW 19/163 = $6 Made in England size 1 16.5mm diameter bk512 = $5 Made in England size 4 14mm diameter 19/165 = $5 Made in England 16.5mm diameter - small stain on apex - a409 = $5 size 2 16mm diameter NEW bm190 = $2 size 3 15mm diameter - well-used apex - - tiny chip on inside rim - bm80 = $6 14mm diameter bm206 = $6 16mm diameter

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Other plastic phimbles

a406 = $4 England size 3 15mm diameter NEW 19/153 = $2 England size 6 12mm diameter 8/876 = $3 Japan leather and red plastic sewing ring bm287 = $3 Japan leather and pink plastic sewing ring bm314 = $10 Fuji Hato Japan 3 leather and red plastic sewing rings in original packaging 8/914 // 8/1312 = $4 each USA S.C.T.C. Southern California Thimble Collectors … 16mm diameter 8/1306 = $4 USA Garden State Thimblers with a leaf/flower 16mm diameter 8/1317 = $3 USA Serve the Lord with gladness Ps. 100:2… 16mm diameter 8/1411 = $4 USA Three Rivers Thimblers Pittsburgh, Pa 16mm diameter 8/1432 = $4 USA Bay Area Thimble Society with Bat motif 16mm diameter 8/1500 = $3 USA JCC 14:6 Jize cee ma c gbo, ke c da unknown language 16mm diameter 19/137 = $5 Ivorine? size 4 14.5mm diameter - crack at rim - - worn apex - hh360 = $15 Nail-shaped 19/143 = $2 size 0 17mm diameter 19/147 = $2 size 0 16.5mm diameter 19/134 = $3 size 1 16mm diameter 19/158 = $3 size 1 17mm diameter 17/61 = $1 size 2 15.5mm diameter thick rim - 1940s bk1382 = $2 size 2 16mm diameter bk1381 = $3 size 3 15mm diameter - band seems darker from traces of red paint - - that have now gone - bk1130 = $3 size 3 finely indented not modern 19/142 = $2 size 3 14mm diameter 19/148 = $2 size 5 14mm diameter 19/146 = $2 size 6 16mm diameter bk1377 = $2 size 6 17mm diameter bk1383 = $1 size 6 15.5mm diameter 19/135 = $2 size 8 16mm diameter bk1131 = $1 14mm diameter cc23 = $1 15mm diameter old

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Last updated 18 November 2009

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