Most of my thimble collection are from places I've been on vacation, but my Grandma gave me two thimbles that will always be special to me. One from her Monopoly game, and another that is Aluminum.

I do not collect the ones that are useless..BUT I have acquired many of the REAL ones from sewing boxes at estate sales! I even have an Ivory one!

I have my grandmother's quilting thimble, but my husband is the thimble collector in our house. He has his grandmother's plus several that he has collected from estate sales, antique shops, etc. At least these are easier to find room for....he also collects treadle and hand crank sewing machines :)

Christine

No thimbles here unless they're leather ones. I collect pin cushions..

I have my Dh's mother's and his Gr Mother's. i have one that is an angel and it came from my DIL.

My children bring me decorative thimbles from where they travel. I didn't start the collection, they did, but I enjoy getting them.

Tuesy, I love pin cushions too!

I love old advertising thimbles - player pianos, food, buggy whips, politics, coal stoves - all sorts of things you don't usually think of as sewing related. I also love the old silver ones with intricate designs.

I found the type boxes to be a scootch to shallow for mine, and ended up putting "bumpers" on the bottom of the case (on the backside) so they would not fall off so easily.

LOVE the old thimbles!! :) I have a few, maybe 7 or 8, but I love the darned things! I'm not crazy about the ceramic or porcelain thimbles as they're not really "usable", altho I have a couple of those as well.

I just love the old stuff, no matter what it is...I like to imagine the ladies before me that used the items, and what their lives were like.

Moonpi, I will have to do a search of advertising ones, never knew they had any, would love to see them!
LOL, Charlee, me too!!!!!!!!!! I get excited about anything "vintage" I think!