Nail
- Object Name:
- Nail
- Object ID:
- 2017.500.12
- Place of Origin:
- Europe
- Date:
- 1515
- Description:
- Large hand-wrought nail, brass or bronze. Rectangular head. Shaft is rectangular in cross section, tapering to a point. Four notches just below head. With piece of paper inscribed in ink, "Spike from a church / Built in 1515."
- Material:
- Metal
Brass - Dimensions:
- W-0.5 L-4.5 D-0.2 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 20 objects in collection of relics found in first-floor classroom in New Hampshire Historical Society building at 6 Eagle Square (Hamel Center), Concord, in 2017. Acquired by NHHS education department c. 2010 from an unidentified New Hampshire school teacher who was visiting the museum with a class.
All of the inscriptions appear to date from the 1890s. Four of the objects were given to the collector by Mrs. Leroy S. Brown (Geneva May Philbrick Brown) (1855-1947) of Cambridge, MA; she lived in Cambridge from 1884 to 1906. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Souvenirs, Nails and spikes
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