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


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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."


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 = $35 each
Thimbles of Southern Africa
Jenny Scharff Bockel / 2005
signed copies

Full colour photographs accompany this detailed description of Boer War memorabilia and all thimbles made in Southern Africa since then


bk1093 = $18
A guide to collecting silver
Elizabeth de Castres / 1980

b149 [6 issues]
$4 each
Thimble Society of London catalogues
vol 3, issue 8, autumn 1989 - vol 3, issue 12, autumn 1990
[6 issues]

b150 [2 issues]
$4 each
Thimble Society of London catalogues
vol 4, issue 2, spring 1991 and vol 4, issue 4, autumn 1991
[2 issues]

$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

$12 each
Thimbles of France with waffled knurling
Beryl Frank
2003
helps in identifying the re-strikes of the 1970s from the originals

a466= $9
Needlework Tools: a Guide to Collecting
Eleanor Johnson
1978 [reprint 1983]
many photos for the identification of variety of sewing tools

NEW


a467= $9
Thimbles
Eleanor Johnson
1982
- minor annotation by previous owner -

NEW


a468= $30
Preise und Abbildungen von Gebruder Gabler…
edited by Paul H Jungbludt
1988
pages from original Gabler Bros catalogues

NEW


a472= $45
Sewing Tools & Trinkets: Collector’s Identification & Value Guide
Helen Lester Thompson
1997
Great photos to aid in identification + prices

NEW


a473= $45
Sewing Tools & Trinkets: Collector’s Identification & Value Guide vol 2
Helen Lester Thompson
2002
Great photos to aid in identification + prices

NEW


8/1638 = $20
Een vingerhoedje … A thimble full
Cecile Dreesmann
1981
signed copy
plastic covering

NEW


8/1639= $95
An illustrated history of needlework tools
Gay Ann Rogers
1989
inscribed, signed copy
plastic covering

NEW


8/1640 = $140
The history of needlework tools and accessories
Sylvia Groves
1973
plastic covering

NEW


8/1641= $70
Victorian brass needlecases
Estelle Horowitz & Ruth Mann
1992

NEW


8/1642 = $35
Thimble treasury
Myrtle Lundquist
1975
plastic covering

NEW


8/1644 = $95
American silver thimbles
Gay Ann Rogers
1989
inscribed, signed copy

NEW


8/1645= $45
Antique and unusual thimbles
Jo Anne Rath
1978
signed copy

NEW


8/1646 = $36
Sewing accessories: an illustrated history
Victor Houart
1984
plastic covering

NEW


8/1647= $35
The book of a thousand thimbles
Myrtle Lundquist
1970
plastic covering

NEW


8/1648 = $20
Aunt Jane’s album
Eliza Calvert Hall
1980 "A Peace and Plenty quilt book"
small pamphlet, reprinting an 1856 story

NEW


8/1649= $85
The song of the shirt
Tom Hood (1799-1845)
n.d
in the shape of a large cotton reel
a poem with coloured illustrations
- quite fragile -

NEW


8/1651 = $40
Old needlework boxes and tools: their story and how to collect them
Mary Andere
1971
plastic covering

NEW


8/1651= $66
Zalkin’s handbook of thimbles and sewing implements. A complete collector’s guide with current prices
Estelle Zalkin
1988
inscribed, signed copy
plastic covering

NEW


8/1652 = $60
Thimble collector’s encyclopedia
John J von Hoelle
1983
original dust jacket
inscribed signed copy

NEW


8/1653= $60
Thimble collector’s encyclopedia
John J von Hoelle
1983
inscribed, signed copy
plastic covering

NEW


8/1654 = $25
Gesprache uber Fingerhute: eine kulturhistorische Betrachtung
Helmut Greif
1983
plastic covering

NEW


8/1655= $62
Antique and collectible thimbles and accessories
Averil Mathis
1986
plastic covering

NEW

 
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