any idea on this miniture thimble?

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I'm starting to like hunting the sidewalk strips, even though a lot of gawkers. Today my hunch paid off a little, in front of a older looking bungalow was a 1943 silver dime. There were a few odd finds also such as a little cap gun, a rusted button with Lincoln on it, and a whatzit small thimble like object. It looks like a thimble but is not a thimble? Thanks for looking. hh oj
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[GoGoGopher]

Those small thimbles were collectors items, kinda like the miniature spoons...they usually will have a porcelain plaquard of some place people visit, like Las Vegas, Or NYC...
They also make porcelain thinbles like that too

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[Jim West Pa]

made for small fingers.
Not only did they come in a variety of sizes for different tasks and different sized hands/fingers.
They were also made for young girls.
There was a time when girls were taught to sew at a very young age.
Sewing was just an important task for survival as was gardening or cooking and girls learned at young ages.
Yours looks real oj, not a toy or collectable.
Today, if it rips or gets dirty or is out of style, it's thrown away and a new one bot.

 

[Ant]

I think you have a monopoly thimble game piece, remember?.

 

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[edjcox]

Here's one to compare with

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WYmedWkXk0I/RulOlPOOz_I/AAAAAAAAAow/Um92kiGKtEg/s400/monopoly+thimble.jpg

 

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[ttrout]

The cap pistol was made in Jacksonville, Texas. About 50 miles north of where I live. I remember I would get very excited when we went there when I was a kid. Many, many, many years ago.

 

[MrGee]

I found a tiny little thimble a month or so ago and was puzzled by it until someone identified it as a playing piece from one ot the original Monopoly games. I remembered some of the tokens from when I was a kid, but had forgottent that there was a thimble in the mix.
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