Nail help.

[Garabaldi]

Anyone know what material this nail was made out of?

 

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[umrgolf]

did you use electrolysis or CLR or something? Looks like a brass nail we used to find in VA

 

[Garabaldi]

did you use electrolysis or CLR or something? Looks like a brass nail we used to find in VA

No found it just like this.

 

[artyfacts]

Could be Muntz metal. I have spikes that came out looking like they where just made. Arty

 

[Stegner]

Copper clenching nail?
http://www.faeringdesigninc.com/fst-clen.html


A proper clenching nail has been increasingly difficult to find as the older manufacturers have disappeared from the scene. Fortunately we have found a domestic nail and tack maker to once again make available this quality fastener. The blunt nail point provides for a stronger tip as it is turned or clenched back into the wood.

 

[RELICDUDE07]

If you found it in the water-the shifting sands due that------kinda polish it as it rolls in the tide ....They used them because - well iron & steel didn't do so well in salt water... Brass / bronze

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

If you found it in the water-the shifting sands due that------kinda polish it as it rolls in the tide ....They used them because - well iron & steel didn't do so well in salt water... Brass / bronze

This is true. I find shiny pennies in the surf. The waves polish them.

bronze nail pic-

 

[Garabaldi]

I did find it in the surf, so the tide must have kept in this condition. So its brass or bronze?

 

[artyfacts]

Most likely bronze or a form of brass, (Muntz).

 

[Garabaldi]

Most likely bronze or a form of brass, (Muntz).

Thanks Muntz

 

[kuger]

You may not beleive this but in a famous copper mining town as kids we used to put shovels in the water that had gathered in the old shafts and in a few months time the shovels were copper plated.I have found square nails in this water also copper plated