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Description: | A silver thimble. The thimble is of two piece design with the separate cap missing. It has almost straight sides and a longitudinal seam which has sprung open. The base has no rim but a single incised line border above which is a band of inscription reading: 'IE VIS IN ESPERE', French for "I live in hope" with colon stops. Above this band, the walls are decorated with rectangular pits forming a chequerboard pattern with the squares left in relief between them.The thimble is 18.3mm high, 17.6mm wide, 15.6mm internal diameter (but slightly squashed) and the walls are 1mm thick. 4.75g.The construction and shape of the thimble is similar to Holmes (1976), fig.6., which dates from the seventeenth century, and to examples in McConnel (1996) also attributed to the early seventeenth century. The inscription can be paralleled by Post-Medieval finger rings, though rendered in English rather than French, for example see LON-A15571 (2014 T91).References:Holmes, E. (1976) 'Thimbles', Dublin: Gill & MacmillanMcConnell, B. (1996) 'The Collector's Guide to Thimbles', Wellfleet Press
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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