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Description: | A Post Medieval copper alloy thimble with maker's mark dating 1520-1620. The thimble has sloping sides and a slightly domed top with a raised centre. The indentations are oval and have been hand stamped in a continuous spiral from the top to the rim with no bare tonsure. At the end of the indentations there is a stamped maker's mark It is not blear but is probably an angular S in a recessed panel. Below the indentations there is a single linear border just above the rim. It is 16.2mm in diameter at the base. 17.5mm tall, the walls are 0.9mm thick and it weighs 4.28 grams.Holmes (1988:3) notes that thimbles with maker's marks appear to have been imported mostly from Nuremberg where, "under the ordinances of the Guild of Thimble-makers, all thimbles and sewing rings were required to carry the mark of the master who made them." He continues that thimbles with makers' marks normally date from 1520-1620. Other thimbles with an S are known, e.g. Egan (1998: 132) no.641
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