Thimble Egg

[skippy]

Greetings to all,

This is a great Thimble Egg with a thimble No.8 . I'm not sure if this is time period. So I hope I posted this one in the right forum. I couldn't find to much about this Thimble Egg. I did find some for the end of 1870's - 1880's. But none with the brass chains I have and the extensions what I call to imitate a tassel. Mine does differ from the 1880's just a bit, as the color of the front part. I found none that had color added to it. The whole style seams to be an earlier one (I hope). Maybe you nice ladies out there could tell me a bit more about this egg. I don't know how it was worn on a dress, for I'm pretty sure it was because of the chain. It is all brass including the thimble I believe.

Regards
Skip

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

LOVE this, thank you! That's one of those fascinating treasures you see in museums, you know you'd love to have, couldn't do anything with if you had it but sure would put it somewhere you could enjoy it all the time.

 

[skippy]

Thank you JPK Huson. Yes indeed, I know what you mean. I'd love to know how old this piece really is.

 

[donna]

This is a real treasure. Thanks for posting.

 

[Mike Serpa]

I never heard of these before. Thanks for posting.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

It also looks like the kind of thing the Mr. and Mrs. RobertP's would have somewhere in their Southern History Museum ( just made that up, please no one think they really opened a museum? ), or JamesN or JamesB would know about, or of course Diane. If I've left any of our experts out, apologize- I'm merely adding the members you stalk shamelessly when you'd like to have information on ' stuff'.