Thimble case
Category
Wooden objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Bone, Boxwood [buxus sempervirens], Metal
Measurements
51 mm (Height); 34 mm (Diameter)
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 549436
Summary
Thimble case of mottled boxwood, egg-shaped with halves screwing together. Containing pockmarked bone thimble with metal guard. Handwritten note, inscribed: 'Treen egg with thimble and shield laburnham treen Pinto pl 791 29/-'.
Provenance
An item from the Pamela Ward Collection, left to the National Trust in the will of Miss Ward in 1994
Marks and inscriptions
Treen egg with thimble and shield laburnham treen Pinto pl 79l 29/- (note)