Old mini hammer?

[Greylock]

I found this at the same site I found my 1796 half dime so I'm guessing early 1800's. looks just like a little hammer but for what? I think it's made of cast brass.

 

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[Greylock]

Posted twice on accident. Can this be deleted

 

[Confederate Sailor]

Looks like you found a horse shoe nail.

 

[ivan salis]

yep

 

[Greylock]

Thanks

 

[Confederate Sailor]

Glad to have helped.

 

[pa plateau hiker]

I'm not too sure it is a horse shoe nail. It looks round in the photos and horse shoe nails are flat as are ox shoe nails.

 

[Confederate Sailor]

I think you have a point, pun intended. I wish I kept the item I found while I was walking around newly broken ground next door that looks identical to this one. I found it in a location where a barn stood many, many years ago which lead me to believe what I had found was a horse shoe nail and this one was to.

You did bring up a good point that it has a rounded shank so maybe not what I had suspected. After some research I found that not only horse shoe nails had square shank, but all nails were square until machine made wire nails entered production in 1890.