News Unique brass thimble, colonial ceramics discovered at Fort Michilimackinac Published: Jun. 26, 2018, 4:48 p.m.

Thimbles have a fascinating history and have been made from a variety of materials-china, porcelain, silver, gold, plastic, steel, bronze, brass, wood, leather, pewter, ivory, aluminum, tin, stone ...

An unusual brass thimble, ceramics, a knife and shards of a glazed tin jar were unearthed last month during an archaeological excavation at Colonial Michilimackinac in Mackinaw City, Michigan.

MACKINAW CITY, MICHIGAN—The continuing excavation of an eighteenth-century row house root cellar at Colonial Michilimackinac has recovered a brass thimble, a knife blade, barrel bands, pieces of ...

The idea of collecting thimbles caught on in England, during the Victorian age. At the time, silver thimbles were considered an appropriate gift for a woman. Many made during the World's Fair of ...

Boxed silver examples are sought-after, but even the brass one you describe is worth £30-£40 to a collector. Of course, most old thimbles are worth very little. Read the rules here ...

A bidding war ensued. “I sold the thimble for $900 and the box for $450,” she said. Thimbles can be made from almost anything; gold, silver, copper, brass, porcelain, plastic, even animal hides.

A gold thimble with a band of seed-pearls of about 1850s in its original shagreen case. Brass and base metal thimbles are a good entry point for your nimble-fingered collection.

Archaeologists have unearthed part of an 18th-century musket at a colonial-era fort in Michigan. The serpent-shaped sideplate was found this week during an excavation at Colonial Michilimackinac ...