First Sterling Silver Thimble

bonepicker · Jul 30, 2015

Went out yesterday evening to a couple sites.
At the first site I found my first Sterling Silver Thimble and a few early memorial pennies.
I like the fancy design, and it appears to be an antique.
The second site was not very productive. A little Bling, a little cha-ching, and then my 9" coil battery dies.
Oh well was hot as hell, and the poison ivy on my arm was rubbing against my armcuff.

villagenut · Jul 30, 2015

Nice thimble....and I wouldnt wish poison ivy on anybody, I had a bad case a year ago. Trying to get to that "one spot " of ground that nobody has searched before...not a good idea.

joesmarbles · Jul 30, 2015

Nice,anchor mark may be birmingham England....Joe McDonough

qaela4 · Jul 30, 2015

That thimble makes it all worthwhile in my opinion, nice save!

DirtStalker · Jul 30, 2015

Nice little assortment of finds BP. Still waiting for you to baptise your machine

Erik in NJ · Jul 30, 2015

Nice looking thimble. As Joe said the "anchor" mark represents Birmingham, England. Any other marks on it?

romeo-1 · Jul 30, 2015

Nice one!

Old Dude · Jul 30, 2015

A thimble of any type has not been found by me yet, so I really like your silver one. Looks to be in perfect shape.

bonepicker · Jul 30, 2015

villagenut said:
Nice thimble....and I wouldnt wish poison ivy on anybody, I had a bad case a year ago. Trying to get to that "one spot " of ground that nobody has searched before...not a good idea.

Thanks VN. I haven't had poison ivy in so long, I thought I was immune. Guess not. I think I got it from my hand towel in my finds pouch. All day I had putting stuff in my pouch and my hand towel was in the bottom of this. At the end of the day I dug the hand towel out of my bag and wiped the dirt and sweat from my forearms. Been doing this for years. Lesson Learned.....

joesmarbles said:
Nice,anchor mark may be birmingham England....Joe McDonough

Thanks Joe. I took some more photos of markings. it does look like an anchor.

qaela4 said:
That thimble makes it all worthwhile in my opinion, nice save!

Thanks Qaela. Im really happy with it...

tylerbdad said:
Nice little assortment of finds BP. Still waiting for you to baptise your machine

Thanks Allen. Might wait and get the XP water kit. I like the idea of using the wired phones connected to the dry bag. I want to get it wet, but so scared something is going to go wrong.

Erik in NJ said:
Nice looking thimble. As Joe said the "anchor" mark represents Birmingham, England. Any other marks on it?

Thanks Erik. I just took some better photos of the markings. It does look like an anchor

romeo-1 said:
Nice one!

Thanks Romeo

Old Dude said:
A thimble of any type has not been found by me yet, so I really like your silver one. Looks to be in perfect shape.

Thanks OD. The base isnt perfectly round but close enough. It was my third thimble, but my first silver one.

sutphin · Jul 30, 2015

MR PICKER THAT SILVER THIMBLE IS A WINNER. AND DID YOU SAY IVY WORD . DONT TOUCH ANYWHERE IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN COULD GET REALLY UGLY. I HAVE NEVER BEEN ALLERGIC TO IT UNTIL LAST YEAR CAUGHT ON BOTH ARMS BIG IDEA I PUT LIQUID SKIN OVER THE LESIONS DAMN STUFF COULD NOT DO ANTHING AND LEFT SCARS WHERE IT WAS TRAPPED UNDER. I FIGURED WELL THAT WAY IT WOULD NOT SPREAD STUPID STUPID IDEA. IT TOOK ALMOST 5 MONTHS FOR IT TO CLEAR WITH SHOTS SO BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU PUT YOUR HANDS AND LET IT RUNS ITS COURSE WITH A DOCTORS CARE IF REALLY BAD.