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Really? Phillips (1993) reports that actually cut nails made entirely by machine are credited to Jacob Perkins- cited above.

For this case, tool marks, any splits that show iron Fibre direction can map to outrageous key. Beyond these you consider context: The nail shown above in the photo and detailed further below was hand-made in the Northeastern U.S. before 1800 but could be still earlier. We give a chronology: the history of nails, types & methods of fabrication, and we describe antique and modern cut nails focusing on tree nails, wrought nails, and cut nails used in wood frame construction or interior finishing or carpentry work. Carson Dunlop Associates provides extensive home inspection education and report writing material. In gratitude we provide links to tsome Carson Dunlop Associates products and services . They appear to be early machine cut nails based on your photos. Is my assessment correct? Moderator reply:The color of the "growth" on the head of that spike suggests that it may be made of bronze. If so it's probably quite old, and there won't be a fibre direction. If it's iron, as may be evident when it has been cleaned, then that may offer a clue. In the article above and also again at NAILS HAND-WROUGHT & REPRODUCTIONS we note from Nelson's research that ... Tomalin, Victoria, Veerasamy Selvakumar, Madhavan V. Nair, and Pandanpara Kunjappy Gopi. "The Thaikkal‐Kadakkarappally boat: An archaeological example of medieval shipbuilding in the western Indian Ocean." International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 33, no. 2 (2004): 253-263. I believe this is an 1800s machine cut nail that has been hand split. Wondering if this is in fact a nail and why it might have been split like this? It was found metal detecting right next to a an 1830-1860s cellar hole in the mountains of Vermont. Thank you so much! This is a fantastic resource.

On 2023-04-24 by InspectApedia Editor - mineral build-up on old rusty spikes from Southern California beach Thörnqvist, Clara. "Old Barge-Builders' Terms from the Volga Area." The Slavonic and East European Review (1953): 140-150. 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. Founded in 1888 by Theodore Rivierre, the factory is still in its original buildings. Since then, engeneers and workers have handed their knowledge down from generation to generation, to perpetuate the know-how of nail making.The wide choice of decorative studs includes cast iron pyramid door studs, off-centre studs and more. These are ideal for dressing doors and period furniture and have an easy-to-fit drive in spike. This is what sparked my interest in what I found. This was on an episode of oak island. Very similar as to what I had found

Looks like that spike is too rusted to see much more, such as actual tool marks or burrs. the 6.5 cm length is most-likely but what remains of what was a longer fastener. I agree that the items in your second photo look like nails, and look rather different than those in the first photo. The straight sides argue for a hand-wrought spike pre-dating cut-nails but not necessarily as the age of those two types of fasteners overlapped. Just wondering if this can be identified. I found this nail on a beach in North Ayrshire Scotland while metal detecting. The video won’t upload, so here’s another pic with different angle I wonder if you might help me identify this nail. It was found in Kent, UK, between Northfleet and Southfleet where Roman remains have been found previously.Perkins' machine, powered by water rather than by hand would have been capable of producing a greater quantity of nails per day. I’m fairly certain these are nails, they taper to a blunt point and everything. If you held them in your hand you’d think they were square nails. Thanks for replying! Hand-wrought nails were used in North America in the 17th, 18th, and 19th century in American building construction.

Inspectapedia Com Moderator, Thank you for your prompt reply and for your advice. I shall continue my search. The pointed nail rod would then be held over a pyramid-shaped iron hardy and hammered to cut off the pointed end of the rod to provide a nail of the desired length. There is no dovetail joinery. There are partial pieces of an old newspaper from Newfoundland dated 1833. Would you say that this chest/box is from that time period based on the nails used?Photo above: machine made reproduction of an antique cut nail. Note the variation in shank diameter is irregular - the nail tapers below the head, then gets wider, then more-narrow to the nail tip. Goncharov, A. E., D. M. Mednikov, N. M. Karelin, and I. R. Nasyrov. "Mechanical fasteners used in historical Siberian shipbuilding: perspectives for metallurgical analysis." In IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 255, no. 1, p. 012003. IOP Publishing, 2017. InspectApedia-911, thank you so much for taking the time to reply. It is greatly appreciated. Forgive me for any faux pas but I’m new to this forum. The location you described is correctly and the exact area is known as Ystradfellte. I’ve attached a top view of the nail too. Perkins Nail Cutting Machine. Jacob Perkins, inventor of a water-powered nail-cutting machine, began producing machine-made cut nails in 1794 and in 1795 received the first U.S. nail-cutting machine patent. (Phillips 1993)