January 24, 2024
Railroad Date Nails LOT of 6 Different Dates 1925 - 1968 Steel Shank Nails
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Date Nails LOT 6 different dates per lot.What is a date nail? Briefly, a date nail is a nail with the date stamped in its head. For example, a nail with a "41" is from 1941. They are usually 2 1/2" long, with 1/4" shanks. Date nails were driven into railroad ties, bridge timbers, utility poles, mine props, and other wooden structures for record keeping purposes. We concentrate primarily on the nails used by railroads. Most date nails are steel, though some are copper, aluminum, malleable iron, or brass. Lengths run from a paltry 3/4" up to 3", with shank diameters running from 1/8" up to 5/16". The nail heads can be round, square, diamond, pentagon, as well as other rarer shapes. Over 2,000 different date nails were used by North American railroads which show the year, between 1925 and 1968. Add to that the nails which tell wood, treatment, and other information, and toss in all date nails used in poles and other timbers, and the total number of different nails from this continent easily exceeds 3,500. View more great items
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