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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 - ..."

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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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