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Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum > Records

TOOL, THIMBLE

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Fine vintage Art Deco period attractive sterling silver thimble with bottom half embossed with daisy like flowers. Narrow band at base is engraved 'NGCo Sterling silver 19'.
George V sterling silver, Birmingham C 1925 Northern Goldsmiths.
‘19’ would be the size of the thimble.
Sitting in its own cardboard box, which is breaking up.

Box lid has printed in black :
‘Goldsmith & Silversmith
Martin Wilkinson
3A Market Place, Mansfield’

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Registration number

cwa-org-78-VC2000.246

Last modified

Monday, 18 August, 2025

Completeness

61

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

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