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New papers
The Royal Exchange thimble - another thimble identified New
The Earl of 'Dartmouth' thimble New
An interesting eBay find - a Montreal Pursall thimble New
Russian silver thimbles with applied filigree and enamel decoration New
Inexpensive metal French thimbles with applied copper or brass motifs New
French 'non-identical twins' (11/2019)
French floral thimbles with applied borders (11/2019)
The Anatomy of the thimble (12/2012)
From Jangling to Nürnberg (10/2012)
Thimbles from the Islamic World (9/2012)
Native Americans, Hester Bateman and thimbles (11/2011)
England
Early English Thimbles (8/2009)
A previously unidentified thimble (with Carolyn Meacham, Virginia) (4/2013)
The first English commemorative thimbles (1/2015)
One thimble - five incarnations 11/2018
Iles - a family of thimble makers (Norma Spicer, 2001)
18th century English enamel thimbles (2017)
Caps, sleeves and liners (2017)
France
The Story of Two ''Royal'' Thimbles (4/2007)
The Fable of P. Lenain - fact or fiction (7/2007)
Pierre Lenain' – a widely believed myth (with Michel Painsonneau, France) (4/2008)
The 'Merchant's Warehouse' Fable (1/2007)
The 'wedding thimble' – another thimble myth (5/2009)
Late 19th. and Early 20th. Century French Silver Thimble Masters' Marks (4/2007)
Major Parisian Thimble maker’s places of work (7/2011)
Late 19th and early 20th century French Pictorial thimbles – an identification guide (4/2013)
Identifying and dating French Pictorial thimbles (with Carolyn Meacham)(6/2013)
Guillaume Le Conte, Marguerite de Valleau and a gold thimble (2017)
Germany
16c Silver Nürnberg Thimbles (9/2014)
Nürnberg thimble makers (5/2011)
Medieval Thimble maker's graves in Nürnberg (5/2011)
German Family thimbles (with Wolf-Dieter Scholz, Germany) (4/2011)
Enamelled German Ocean Liner thimbles (11/2019)
Russia
Russian metal Thimbles (2/2011)
Fabergé or Fauxbergé - a simplified guide to ‘Fabergé’ thimbles (11/2018)
AT – an elusive Russian thimble maker's mark (2/2013)
General
Eastern European Thimbles (6/2008)
European Porcelain Thimbles (7/2014)
Collecting Thimbles in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (1/2004)
Iron and Steel thimbles (with Wolf-Dieter Scholz, Germany) (3/2011)
Non-sewing or Quilting thimbles (9/2011)
Metal Thimble Restoration (with Ray Nimmo) (2017)
Thimble collecting – about ‘fakes’, reproductions, re-issues and other potential hazards (9/2010)
Little Thimble, Big Journey (Saudi Aramco World, 2012) and at:
http://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/201205/little.thimble.big.journey.htm
The silver mark no one can explain (2017)
South American thimbles (2017)
Thimbles in internet auctions (11/2018)