Railroad Lantern, With a Dark Red Globe

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Up for bid is a Railroad lantern on the top of the lantern it has Handlan- St. Louis U.S.A., On the Red Globe it has Handlan- St. Louis INC., No chips or crack on the globe.Looks like it's ben cleaned up a little...................... ...see scan, Thank You for Looking............Winner please add $10.00 S/H. Payments:Check, Money Order, Cash will be ok too.. .....If you win more than one auction from us I will be more than happy to combine the product for 1 shipping price.. Thanks, John >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Briefly, a date or Code nail is a nail with the date stamped in its head. For example, a nail with a "12" is from 1912. 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. Most date nails are steel, though many 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 more rare shapes. T are over 2,000 different date nails used by North American railroads that show the year. 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 read more
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