One of the interesting little bits to come out of the kitchen demolition is the nails. The lath and plaster is all gone now, filling four trailers to haul away the detritus.This is a sampling of the nails I pulled from the wooden lath. Notice anything funny about them? They're square. It's hard to tell from my amateur iPhone photos, but these nails aren't round. I'm not even sure they're machine-made. They might be handmade nails.
Hundreds of these little guys were all through the walls. I kept a handful as souvenirs. They're irregular, slightly different lengths, a bit rusty, and square in cross-section. I wonder who made them and how. Different times.
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