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<p>[QUOTE="Elaine Kinsella, post: 482516, member: 9545"]Yeah they used them on 17th century furniture </p><p><br /></p><p>Up to the early 18th century, most early England furniture was ‘joined ‘or ‘pegged’ in their construction, using mortise and tenon joints held together by wooden dowels or pegs, or occasionally clout nails. Early wooden pegs were of irregular or square ended in a tapering form; they acted like wedges and tightened the joints as they were hammered in[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Elaine Kinsella, post: 482516, member: 9545"]Yeah they used them on 17th century furniture Up to the early 18th century, most early England furniture was ‘joined ‘or ‘pegged’ in their construction, using mortise and tenon joints held together by wooden dowels or pegs, or occasionally clout nails. Early wooden pegs were of irregular or square ended in a tapering form; they acted like wedges and tightened the joints as they were hammered in[/QUOTE]
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