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by gracie
Sat May 02, 2009 7:26 pm
Forum: Sterling Manufacturers ~ American after-1860
Topic: Am stumped on who made this thimble. Please help?
Replies: 12
Views: 14714

Thank you, Carling. The research was very thoughtful and enlightening. I"m very appreciative.

gracie
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by gracie
Wed Apr 01, 2009 6:58 pm
Forum: Sterling Manufacturers ~ American after-1860
Topic: Am stumped on who made this thimble. Please help?
Replies: 12
Views: 14714

Thanks again for all your help, Pat, for going out of your way to help me. And everyone else, too!

Gracie
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by gracie
Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:51 pm
Forum: Sterling Manufacturers ~ American after-1860
Topic: Am stumped on who made this thimble. Please help?
Replies: 12
Views: 14714

Thanks again, Patrick. I don't' know much about silver. Could I have a goldmine on my hands, or a silvermine, tee-hee?

I can't for the life of me understand this, or do you people here run across this a lot? It's a very small thimble, perhaps that of a child, sz 6 or really small hands; it acutally ...
by gracie
Wed Apr 01, 2009 2:00 pm
Forum: Sterling Manufacturers ~ American after-1860
Topic: Am stumped on who made this thimble. Please help?
Replies: 12
Views: 14714

Thanks, Patrick! I think you all may be onto something here. But do you see the hook where it kind of comes up on the right? That's what is bothering me. But I am going to research this, somehow. It sure is the closest thing I've come across, however.
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by gracie
Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:56 pm
Forum: Sterling Manufacturers ~ American after-1860
Topic: Am stumped on who made this thimble. Please help?
Replies: 12
Views: 14714

Here is a better picture, a close-up. I mean I have looked and looked. Next stop is the library I guess.

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by gracie
Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:43 pm
Forum: Sterling Manufacturers ~ American after-1860
Topic: Am stumped on who made this thimble. Please help?
Replies: 12
Views: 14714

Thanks so much, Trev! It sorta looks like it, but the part that comes down, the bar is just a little crooked. But the other drawing-like pictures seemed to resemble it. I think mine has a little "hook" type thingie coming up at the bottom. I'm not sure at all!! I have a headache from doing so much ...
by gracie
Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:03 pm
Forum: Sterling Manufacturers ~ American after-1860
Topic: Am stumped on who made this thimble. Please help?
Replies: 12
Views: 14714

Am stumped on who made this thimble. Please help?

Hi, I am Gracie and just joined. Going through some old estate pieces of family. I need help on this thimble. There are initials and what looks to be a backwards ampersand or something. It is marked sterling. The top of the thimble has what looks to be a plain cross type of marking. Nothing on the ...

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