https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/templates/general_wide/img/logo.png UKDFD Recording Software https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ Thimbles https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/thimbles.html Thimble https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/thimbles/thimble-59178.html Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:29:24 GMT Thimbles Thimble  
Description: A crushed and incomplete silver thimble dating to the late 19th or early 20th century. The top of the thimble is missing, the upper part has regular mechanically produced indentations, the central band is decorated with an engraved foliar pattern, and the scalloped base has an applied openwork skirt, depicting conjoined fleurs-de-lis.

Thimbles of this type are sometimes described as 'galleried thimbles'. A very similar example is illustrated in a James Fenton catalogue of circa 1900 (see Image 3).
 
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Category: Thimbles
]]> Thimble https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/thimbles/thimble-58996.html Sat, 08 Nov 2025 12:47:55 GMT Thimbles Thimble  
Description: A rimless copper-alloy thimble with a relatively shallow-domed crown, manually produced indentations and a very slight circumferential groove at the base. The indentations are arranged in a spiral formation, which commences just above the basal groove and extends to the centre of the crown.
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Category: Thimbles
]]> Open-Topped Thimble https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/thimbles/open-topped-thimble-6590.html Sun, 08 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT Thimbles Open-Topped Thimble  
Description: An open-topped sewing ring or tailor’s thimble with manually produced indentations. Complete, but with slight crack at bottom edge.
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Category: Thimbles
]]> Open-Topped Thimble https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/thimbles/open-topped-thimble-16576.html Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT Thimbles Open-Topped Thimble  
Description: An open-topped sewing ring or tailor’s thimble with hand-punched indentations in a spiral pattern. There is an uncertain maker's mark at the base of the spiral.
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Category: Thimbles
]]> Open-Topped Thimble https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/thimbles/open-topped-thimble-16660.html Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT Thimbles Open-Topped Thimble  
Description: A open-topped sewing ring or tailor’s thimble with hand-punched waffle-shaped indentations in a spiral pattern.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Thimbles
Category: Thimbles
]]> Open-Topped Thimble https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/thimbles/open-topped-thimble-17645.html Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT Thimbles Open-Topped Thimble  
Description: An open-topped sewing ring or tailor’s thimble with square, hand-punched indentations in a spiral pattern.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Thimbles
Category: Thimbles
]]> Open-Topped Thimble https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/thimbles/open-topped-thimble-18279.html Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT Thimbles Open-Topped Thimble  
Description: A rimless open-topped sewing ring or tailor’s thimble with manually produced sub-circular indentations and a circumferential groove at the base.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Thimbles
Category: Thimbles
]]> Open-Topped Thimble https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/thimbles/open-topped-thimble-20807.html Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT Thimbles Open-Topped Thimble  
Description: An open-topped sewing ring or tailor’s thimble with rectangular, hand-punched indentations in a spiral pattern.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Thimbles
Category: Thimbles
]]> Open-Topped Thimble https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/thimbles/open-topped-thimble-24820.html Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT Thimbles Open-Topped Thimble  
Description: An open-topped sewing ring or tailor’s thimble with hand-punched rectangular indentations in a spiral pattern.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Thimbles
Category: Thimbles
]]> Open-Topped Thimble https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/thimbles/open-topped-thimble-27333.html Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Thimbles Open-Topped Thimble  
Description: An open-topped sewing ring or tailor’s thimble with four rows of hand-punched rectangular indentations and a groove around the base.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Thimbles
Category: Thimbles
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