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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 11415550, member: 8267&quot;]My first time looking at this post. You seem to be asking - how old is the top of this bodgered table?</p><p><br /></p><p>A first step would be identifying the species of wood, which will probably require a direct examination by a knowledgeable person. This may allow you to determine if it is actually American in origin, or possibly from somewhere else. If you know an approximate region, it may be possible to figure out when old growth timber of the correct species was still readily available. This would might provide a beginning point for a possible date.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dating by evidence such as saw marks can vary depending on where the wood originated and was worked. Mechanical innovations in saws were adopted at different times in different places. Some places still use technologies that are ancient.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, this website provides an excellent discussion of the chronology of tool&nbsp; marks, and includes photographs - </p><p><a href="https://inspectapedia.com/structure/Lumber_Cutting_Methods.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://inspectapedia.com/structure/Lumber_Cutting_Methods.php" rel="nofollow">https://inspectapedia.com/structure/Lumber_Cutting_Methods.php</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Using nails or other hardware for dating is most useful for establishing a &quot;time after which&quot; the construction must have occurred. Hand wrought nails continued to be made and used up through the early 19th century, with a gradual transition to machine cut nails beginning after 1790. Various forms of cut nails were developed during the 19th century, and continue to be made today. Round wire nails first appear in Europe during the first half of the 19th century, and in the U.S. in&nbsp; the 1850s. These early wire nails were small in size, and used only for small articles rather than construction. They did not become the dominant type of nail, including larger sizes, until the 1890s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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