Brandon Sollars sent this message with intriguing pictures. Any ideas, anyone?
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This head was found along with the staves and hickory bands under an old hotel in Pennyslvania that my great grandfather tore down in the early 1940s. He put them in his basment and saved them which is where I got them from last summer. When I have the time I intend to reassemble the keg for display in my living room. So far all I have done is wiped the dirt off of the face with a dry paper towel in order to be able to make out the writing on it. The nail is real obvious in the upper right hand corner in the picture with the plywood background. The individual boards are held together with dowel rods and there is no other metal in the keg's construction but I can find no reason for why a nail would be there. There has been no work done to this keg other than to taking it apart and I can see no reason why a nail would have been added at any point post manufacture but prior to when my great grandfather found it. Here are a few pictures.
Thanks,
Brandon
![](http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w129/preservationparcels/Brandons%20Keg/PowderKeg005-1.jpg)
![](http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w129/preservationparcels/Brandons%20Keg/PowderKeg001-1.jpg)
This head was found along with the staves and hickory bands under an old hotel in Pennyslvania that my great grandfather tore down in the early 1940s. He put them in his basment and saved them which is where I got them from last summer. When I have the time I intend to reassemble the keg for display in my living room. So far all I have done is wiped the dirt off of the face with a dry paper towel in order to be able to make out the writing on it. The nail is real obvious in the upper right hand corner in the picture with the plywood background. The individual boards are held together with dowel rods and there is no other metal in the keg's construction but I can find no reason for why a nail would be there. There has been no work done to this keg other than to taking it apart and I can see no reason why a nail would have been added at any point post manufacture but prior to when my great grandfather found it. Here are a few pictures.
Thanks,
Brandon
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