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British Thimble Collecting

The British people most certainly love their thimbles. Thimbles have been around since the mankind has been sewing. They are made of stone, bronze, wood, leather, horn, bone, tortoise shell, glass, mother of pearl, all kinds of different metals and also porcelain.  Early needles were very thick pieces of metal and it was easy to hurt yourself with them. Most of the early ones were […]