Most expensive thimble
- Who
- 'Persia work' Elizabethan gold thimble
- What
- 20070 UK pound(s) sterling
- Where
- United Kingdom
- When
- 13 December 1992
The record price paid for a thimble is £20,070 ($31,359) at Phillips' Midland branch, UK on 13 December 1992 for a late-16th-century gold jewelled thimble reputed to have belonged to Queen Elizabeth I. It was bought by Asprey's on behalf of a client.