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2008-07-07 Ketcham & McDougall: Hello Suzanne. How very exciting that you have a family tie to your thimble collection! John von Hoelle printed a booklet in 1987 titled 'The Story of Ketcham & McDougall America's Premier Thimble Manufacturer'...
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2008-06-22 silver thimble: Hello Lesley. I'm afraid I'm not much help without a picture. Any chance you could send digital pictures to me at bacchino@twcny.rr.com? Chester would have been the city of assay. Yes, those little...
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2008-06-19 antique thimble: Hello Lesley. Your thimble looks to be made of base metal. It has machine knurling (those indentations where the needle's eye goes to be pushed through fabric) so that means it was probably made post...
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2008-06-12 thimble with sewing kit: Hello Beth. Sewing kits did come in brass, along with many other types of material. They were designed to be a portable mending kit, thus the tiny spools of thread. The "spool" may also be a needle...
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2008-06-02 Scissors: Hello Miranda. I've check through my personal reference library but find little on scissors. Estelle Zalkin's Thimbles and Sewing Implements has a chapter on scissors as does Gay Ann Rogers' An Illustrated...
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