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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 298503, member: 5066&quot;]There are no nails on this table except the 4 that holds the the drawer bottom to back of drawer frame. Everything else is pinned with wood pegs which is common on 18th century american furniture construction. Nails were precious in the 18th century and VERY valuable. So valuable that in the 1600s people when moving to a new location would burn down their house/barn &amp; sift through the ashes just to recover the nails!</p><p>In 1645, the govt. in Virginia outlawed this arson and instead granted owners a quantity of nails equal to the amount of nails used to construct the buildings. The lowly nail was a BIG DEAL back in the day which is why you don&#039;t see many in early furniture construction.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.gregorylefever.com/pdfs/Early%20Nails%202.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gregorylefever.com/pdfs/Early%20Nails%202.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.gregorylefever.com/pdfs/Early Nails 2.pdf</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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