"More About Thimbles" Reference Book Vol 1 by William & Magdalena Isbister

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"More About Thimbles" Reference Book Vol 1
by William & Magdalena Isbister
This new book by William and Magdalena Isbister is the first volume of the "More About Thimbles" trilogy. The authors have put together many years of serious thimble research into these works. This volume covers the invention of the thimble and the early years of its development. It studies the various parts of a thimble and tells how to identify thimbles of various nationalities. There are chapters on English commemorative and souvenir thimbles, exposition thimbles,
Islamic thimbles and
blackberry thimbles.
This book is soft cover, 202 pages and measures 8" by 10". It was published in 2015.
This is a brand new copy and the ISBN # is 978-1-36-480657-6.
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