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

8/537 = $4 USA Thimble Collectors for price and information write Harold Bellinger … Ill. 16mm diameter 8/672 = $4 USA Thumbelina Needlework Solvang CA 16mm diameter 8/964 = $3 USA Sunshine Station Hickory NC … 16mm diameter bk526 / bk527 / bk528 = $2 each USA Thimbles Only/Thimble Talk … San Diego CA 15.5mm diameter uu548 = $3 USA The world famous sewing bears trainer Betty Jo Miller… 15.5mm diameter

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Bakelite thimbles?

19/149 = $8 CH or HC 18mm diameter hh76 = $3 size 2 16mm diameter bk1134 = $3 size 4 15mm diameter 17/65 = $2 size 5 14mm diameter 17/64 = $2 size 5 15mm diameter

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Brown & Bigelow St Paul Minnesota USA The two-toned advertising thimbles are from 1940s

8/642 = $9 advertising Wilson …"that’s all" … Bristol PA with a dropped rim which has now been found on other examples from this era - slight staining - 8/928 = $6 campaign Bert L. Swezea for County Commissioner 15mm diameter

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Campaign thimbles for the USA see also Brown & Bigelow thimbles

8/664 = $4 USA Joe Yoder Your County Auditor 16mm diameter 8/978 = $14 USA George Wallace for President ‘76’ 16mm diameter 8/983 = $14 USA Elect Reagan President 1980 The people’s choice 16mm diameter - lettering quite rubbed - 8/986 = $4 USA Sew it up with Southard for Sheriff 16mm diameter - very light lettering -

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Christmas thimble ornaments

8/999 = $15 USA? Hallmark Cards © 1984 7th in series 51mm height 8/1000 = $9 USA? Hallmark Cards 65mm height 8/1007 = $10 USA? Hallmark Cards © 1989 12th in series 39mm height

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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

116 // bk1135 // bk1379 = $2 each 1930s plastic 16mm diameter - mint condition - 19/131= $4 1930s plastic size 0 18.5mm diameter - out of round - 19/132= $4 1930s plastic size 1 16.5mm diameter - out of round - 19/140= $4 1930s plastic size 1 16mm diameter 19/161= $4 1930s plastic size 1 Made in England 17mm diameter 19/162= $3 1930s plastic size 1 16mm diameter 19/167= $3 1930s plastic size 1 16mm diameter 19/133= $3 1930s plastic size 2 16.5mm diameter - hole in apex - 19/138= $3 1930s plastic size 2 Made in England 16mm diameter - out of round - - grubby - 19/164= $4 1930s plastic size 2 Made in England 165mm diameter 19/139= $4 1930s plastic size 3 Made in England 16mm diameter b194 = $4 1930s plastic size 3 14mm diameter

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Fingerguards

19/122 = $8 Celluloid older type with curled-over edge - well used - 19/123 = $9 Celluloid with striated pattern older type with curled-over edge 19/129 = $8 Celluloid 19/130 = $8 Celluloid

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Iles & Gomms England

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

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Personalised thimbles

8/512 = $3 USA Barbara A Averell “thimble collector” … PA 16mm diameter 8/516 = $3 USA Natalie B Borg thimble collector … Conn. 16mm diameter 8/536 = $3 USA The nimble thimbler Grace L Blackburn … Calif. 16mm diameter 8/538 = $3 USA Thimble collector Edyth Geller … NY. 16mm diameter 8/540 = $3 USA Bettee Gourd thimble collector … Conn. 16mm diameter 8/543 = $3 USA Judy Mae Erven … Ohio 16mm diameter 8/544 = $3 USA Greetings from the Thimble Islands Dickey Everson … Connecticut 16mm diameter 8/545 = $3 USA Jennifer Michelle Buss Linda Sue Buss Joyce Hughes-Stephens Thelma Myrtle-Hughes 16mm diameter 8/552 = $3 USA Mary Frances Cataney … PA. 16mm diameter 8/554 = $3 USA Thimbling Betty C Kraviecki … Ca. 16mm diameter 8/915 = $4 USA Marion Lipsius Tujunga Calif … 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 8/926 = $4 USA "Thimble friend" Vie Downard … Ohio 16mm diameter 8/931 = $4 USA Joyce Hughes-Stephens thimbles & lady bugs … California 16mm diameter 8/935 = $4 USA Thimbles and buttons Catherine Anderson … New Berlin Wis. 16mm diameter 8/936 = $4 USA Pearl Hazen collector of thimbles … Pittsburgh PA … 16mm diameter - lettering rubbed - 8/938 = $4 USA I’d rather be thimbling Roberta Kennedy … Calif 16mm diameter 8/940 = $4 USA Joyce Hughes-Stephens thimbles & lady bugs … California 16mm diameter 8/941 = $4 USA Estelle Zalkin … Miami Beach Fla 16mm diameter 8/962 = $4 USA The Nimble Thimble Pat Colern … New York 16mm diameter 8/984 = $4 USA Leona M Coad…Houston, Texas with thimble logo and map Houston Thimble Group 16mm diameter 8/993 = $4 USA Jeanne Macalister Lady Glenbarr … Scotland 16mm diameter 8/1226//1227//1228//1229//1230 = $4 each USA Happy thimbling from Priscilla Stoffel & Iris Woolley Friends across 10,000 miles Pasadena CA 1980 16mm diameter NEW

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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 11 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 - 8/1097 = $6 size 2 15mm diameter a166 = $3 size 3 14mm diameter - seeming chip on apex but not holed - 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 it

19/166 = $8 Halex size 0 17.5mm diameter 8/879 = $8 Halex size 1 16mm diameter bk511 = $7 Halex size 1 17mm diameter -some of the indents have worn smooth giving a nice patina - bk513 = $7 Halex size 3 15.5mm diameter - some of the indents are grubby - 17/41 = $8 Halex size 4 15mm diameter bm194 = $4 Halex size 5 13mm diameter - chip off outer rim - bk512 = $6 Made in England size 4 14mm diameter 19/163 = $7 Made in England size 1 16.5mm diameter bm190 = $3 size 3 15mm diameter - well-used apex - - tiny chip on inside rim - 19/165 = $6 Made in England 16.5mm diameter - small stain on apex - bm80 = $6 14mm diameter bm206 = $7 16mm diameter

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Other plastic thimbles

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 = $12 Fuji Hato Japan 3 leather and red plastic sewing rings in original packaging 6/195 = $2 New Zealand Chromed plastic Village Square Gold Coast Australia 8/1091 = $2 New Zealand Chromed plastic Bowral home of tulip time 6/204 = $3 USA Thumble the quilter's thumb polyethylene in original packaging 8/914 = $4 USA S.C.T.C. Southern California Thimble Collectors … 16mm diameter uu580 = $4 USA commemorating DMWC May Day 1990 16mm diameter 19/137 = $6 Ivorine? size 4 14.5mm diameter - crack at rim - - worn apex - bb416 = $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 = $4 size 3 15mm diameter -band seems darker from traces of red paint - - that have now gone - 19/142 = $2 size 3 14mm diameter bk1130 = $4 size 3 finely indented not modern 19/145 = $2 size 4 14mm diameter 19/157 = $2 size 4 15mm 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 19/136 = $2 17mm diameter bk1131 = $1 14mm diameter cc23 = $1 15mm diameter old

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Last updated 3 August 2008

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