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In the window of the Little Locksmith's studio. She called it her "Thimble." It's unknown if she made the sign or someone else did.
From the auto rest stop on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. An amazing 17.6 mile crossing comprised of four bridges, two tunnels and two man made islands.
Antique thimble (with blue bottom). 25 inches long. 2011
* The text seen around the thimble says 'Eat Bermaline Bread'. The Bermaline Bread company produced the famous bread between 1897 - 1970.
This was Logan's first time making donuts. He not only got the floor floury, but he made donuts in the shape of monster trucks thanks to grandma's wide variety of cookie cutters. He especially took pride in his thimble flour mountains.
taken so I could see the hallmarks better - but they've come out quite well.
This one was made in Chester in 1897, and is actually the one my Grandma used the most.
The Thimbles are an archipelago of 100 to 365 islands, depending on whether you count small rocks, reefs, ledges and sandbars that surface at low tide, off Branford, east of New Haven. The largest, Horse Island, owned by the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, is 17 acres. They look like chunks of coastal Maine — with pink granite bases and lush covers of hardwoods, pines and thickets — that have somehow ended up in Long Island Sound.
Their name, most locals agree, derives from the thimbleberry, a type of black raspberry, that used to grow on them in abundance.
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