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The first nail making machines in North America appeared during the late 1700's - earlier than one might have guessed. To provide a chronology of the production and types of nails we first describe wooden nails or "tree nails" followed by a chronological list of useful dates for iron nails. Wooden nails - Tree Nails or Treenails, Post & Beam Construction at NAIL AGE DETERMINATION KEY but remember that knowing the type of nail also helps identify its historic context or use and thus is also a clue to its age. NAIL ID & AGE: CUT NAILS - photos of types of cut nails and details about determining their age where we describe early nail-making machines in North America and include English and U.S. patents for such equipment.

Cook's visits [to Tahiti] in April 1769, August 1773, and August 1777 only heightened the islanders' desire for iron and other western goods. . (Denver, 2013 Tahiti, p. 682-683). 1775-1783 Nails During the American Revolution

In essence, as you’ll read above, when estimating the age, use, and history of a a nail or spike, we look I then scratched my head with confusion and then proceeded by going and getting my magnet. The magnet in fact grabbed onto the object. What material would this be made of? In our illustration below you'll notice that modern "wire nails" show a series of parallel "gripper" marks along the upper end of the shank, just below the nail head.

In our photo you can see the round sawn-off peg that secured the tenon of the lower vertical post into the mortise that had been cut into the horizontal beam. The posts and beams were cut to size, mortises and tenons were cut, and the builders marked the corresponding joint components with numbers or letters - in my photo you can see the or in my OPINION, probably a bit later, as late as 1850. I think some early nail making machinery often had a longer life than ascribed by Nelson. In some communities, old nail making machine may have, for a time, continued in production alongside later, more-sophisticated machines producing more-rounded and more-uniform nails. Antique cut-nails provided by an InspectApedia.com reader: two cutting/stamping burrs appear on the same side of the nail suggest the nail may have been made after 1840. Thörnqvist, Clara. "Old Barge-Builders' Terms from the Volga Area." The Slavonic and East European Review (1953): 140-150.

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It sounds like you have much of that physical and contextual data already to help you in learning more about your nail. Our best and most complete advice is found above. As the railroad spike is driven through the plate and onwards into the railroad tie or (sleeper), the combination of spike, tie-plate, and sleeper hold the rail in place in the stone-covered bed (ballast) of the railway.In North America before the 1830s the iron fibres in machine cut nails ran across the nail shank, causing the nail to break off if the user tried to clinch it's protruding end. An examination of nails and fasteners and other building hardware is a complimentary effort useful in determining the age of a building and its components. Because the rounded upper nail shank looks regular I suspect this is one of the later members of "Early Machine Headed Cut Nails" nails, 1830 - 1850 described by your namesake. The interesting hand-wrought spike shown here, contributed by InspectApedia.com reader TL, was accompanied by these comments: