#a336 :: Railroad date nail
January 15, 2009
According to the Nailhunter, who has a dizzyingly exhaustive collection of these online, workers pounded date nails into railroad ties, bridges and telephone poles to identify and date the structure, sequence and ownership of the structures.
You can pick them up at swap meets for a buck or two.
This one really appealed to my sense of symmetry and my magpie obsession with shiny little bits of metal
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