Books about thimbles, thimble makers and other thimble related collectables form Australia and around the world

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178a = $18 each Thimbles and thimble cases Eleanor Johnson 2nd ed Shire Books / 1999 Revised format with additional text and illustrations. this 2006 reprint has more colour photos than ever before. "This book will open a door to the humble thimble in all it's variety, ..."	178b = $18 Needlework and embroidery tools Eleanor Johnson 2nd ed Shire Books / 1999 Revised format with additional text and illustrations "This book illustrates several hundred needlework tools ... and describes briefly how they were used."
178c = $20 Buttons Alan and Gillian Meredith Shire Books / 2000 "Buttons have been made form almost every known material and by every manufacturing technique... This book introduces the wonderful array of these treasures..."	178e = $21 each Thimbles of Australia Susan Jean Gowan Kangaroo Press / 1998 "This book has something of interest for every thimble collector. Every known type of thimble relating to Australia has been included - ..." Find out more about my book
178g = $10 each Thimbles and other needlework tools: a selected bibliography Susan Jean Gowan / 1995 This is a listing of books and journal articles published until 1995. No photographs or illustrations, purely a reference tool	377 = $40 each Thimbles of Southern Africa Jenny Scharff Bockel / 2005 Full colour photographs accompany this detailed description of Boer War memorabilia and all thimbles made in Southern Africa since then
bk1093 = $20 A guide to collecting silver Elizabeth de Castres / 1980	b149 [6 issues] $5 each Thimble Society of London catalogues vol 3, issue 8, autumn 1989 - vol 3, issue 12, autumn 1990 [6 issues]
b150 [2 issues] $5 each Thimble Society of London catalogues vol 4, issue 2, spring 1991 and vol 4, issue 4, autumn 1991 [2 issues]	$10 Sampler & Antique Needlework Quarterly #37, winter 2004
$20 Identifying steel-cored thimbles + Supplement Diane Pelham Burn 1993-7 helps in identifying Dorcas, Dreema, Dura etc patterns	$26 each Late nineteenth and early twentieth century French silver thimble masters' marks Magdalena and William Isbister 2007 for the French thimble specialist collector

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