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Dirty Dancing


Here are Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in one of my favourite films.  I bought this thimble from ebay for £1.85.  That's around about the going price for decorative thimbles these days. Anywhere between £1.50 and £2.00 is the norm for bone china thimbles like this one.   Some of the rarer thimbles may go for a little more.  Bidding fever also helps raise the price a bit.  I mentioned in an earlier post that I bought a Teletubbies thimble for £5.50 which is way over priced!  Still, in my defence - it was the only one I had seen up to that point and I haven't seen any more since.  Well, to be honest, I haven't been looking.  It's bad enough knowing you've overpaid for something without seeing the proof. :)

Anyway, the main theme running through my thimble collection is movies and TV so when I saw this on ebay I couldn't pass it by.  It depicts a classic pose from a classic romantic film and we all know the classic line "Nobody puts Baby in a corner."

Well, actually, she isn't in a corner. She's in a box, wrapped up in bubble wrap along with most of my other thimbles at the moment.

Bye for now

Olly 
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  1. Mary9 May 2010 at 01:07

    Hola Olly
    Es grato encontrar a coleccionistas de otros paises !!
    Saludos desde Gran Canaria;
    Mary

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  2. Olly4 July 2010 at 15:45

    Hi Mary

    Thanks for dropping by. I'm glad you like the blog. I am also happy to see that we thimble collectors are world wide:)

    Happy collecting.

    Olly

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  3. strelicja24 May 2015 at 19:54

    Fantastic thimble!

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  4. Olly29 May 2015 at 15:35

    Hi Strelicja, this thimble is one of my favourites :), Thanks for stopping by. Olly

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