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Description: | Machine drawn sheet silver one-piece thimble which is conical in shape with a flattened crown, but has since been flattened and dented from soil pressure and surface activity. The thimble has a raised border at the base with moulded oblique lines that is 2 mm in height, and above this a band of decoration, 6 mm in height, with a raised zig-zag line alternating with individual pellets within two rouletted horizontal borders above and below. Above this area of decoration are neat horizontal rows of tiny circular indentations that form concentric circles on the crown of the thimble. No hallmarks are visible but the thimble is pressed together so that the interior of the base is inaccessible.Similar silver thimbles have been recorded on the PAS database including: NLM-57CE55, LIN-90C704, SUSS-D4CC00 and YORYM-800494.Read (1988) illustrates silver thimbles with similar decoration on page 192, Nos.1361-1362, which are dated from the 19th century. Bailey (1993) illustrates silver thimbles with similar decoration on page 14, nos.45 & 50 which are dated from the early 20th century.
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