Antique French .800 Silver Sewing Thimble, Greek Key Design - Compacts Finished with clear glass applied

Finished with clear glass applied bases and stems

where his workshop won recognition and numerous awards including a silver medal in 1884

Base is marked with spurious blue crowned N mark

who commenced trade at 212 rue Saint-Martin

One is marked on the underside with initials J

Antique French .800 Silver Sewing Thimble, Greek Key Design - Compacts Finished with clear glass appliedA charming vintage French . 800 sewing thimble with a highly collectable representing a scene from the La Fontaine fables. The band features a scene from the Milkmaid and the Pot of Milk (La Laitire et le pot au Lait). Also referred to as The Milk Maid, or sometimes, The Broken Picture. It depicts, as the name suggest, a young girl crying over her broken pitcher of milk, the band further decorated with images of a farmyard scene with cows and