Some cabinetwork/furniture is nailed together with small brads(?)  
that look like this.

PEM


On Jul 8, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Susan Walter wrote:

July 7, 2008
Hi All -
During that last wildfire tragedy here in San Diego County, we lost  
one of our rural treasures - the Sikes Adobe.  (Plans are to  
reconstruct it.)

We did some test pits last month and I have these odd little things:
They are ferrous, 1 inch long and the thickness and shape of sewing  
pins, but in cross section they are square.  (We also have brass  
sewing pins.)  They have heads, and the "point" end is blunt, like a  
square nail.

Mary Beaudry's book does not mention square sewing pins.

Does anyone know what they might be for?
Thanks,
S. Walter


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