Thimble

Thimble

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This metal thimble was found in 1968 during excavation of the sutler’s store at Historic Fort Snelling. Thimbles appear in the store's inventories from the 1830s. They could have been used by the women at the fort (laundresses, domestic servants, enslaved women, and officers' wives) or by the company tailors.

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