Nail
- Object Name:
- Nail
- Object ID:
- 1967.001.09
- Place of Origin:
- Nelson, NH
- Date:
- circa 1785
- Description:
- Tin box containing wooden peg and iron nail. Round wooden peg, with one end charred, the other broken off. Hand-wrought iron nail, four-sided, bent, probably from being extracted, and rusty. Rectangular tin box, no markings, with folded-up sides. Lid of box is made in same manner. Two scraps of finished wood, with no identification.
With two envelopes with writing on them. Larger envelope is postmarked with a two-cent stamp and processing stamps dated November 1, 1909. "This wooden peg is from the first / house built by Solomon Wardwell on / a high hill in the Eastern part of Nelson / N.H. then called Packersfield. The wrought / iron nail from the house built by his son Capt. Ezra / from down on the road. Secured by me / when in company with Grandville Wardwell & / family after the Wardwell re-union in Sullivan." Interspersed in the writing is the name of Miss Lillian H Wardwell, and her address in Keene. Smaller envelope unused, "Peg & nail / from first / Wardwell / home in Nelson" written in cursive pencil on front. - Material:
- Wood
Metal - Dimensions:
- H-1.3 W-3 L-4.2 inches
- Provenance:
- Secured by Miss Lillian Wardwell when in company with Grandville Wardwell and family after the Wardwells removed to Sullivan, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Lillian Florence Wardwell
- Subjects:
- Architectural elements, Nails & spikes
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