Nail from Emil Bessels' Observatory, Thank God Harbor, Greenland

nail

HARDWARE - MARINE
Greenland
before 1873
metal
LOA 1 in.

Nail, bronze?, square in cross-section, head cast "U.S.", tip broken off; used to build Dr. Emil Bessels' Observatory, Thank God Harbor, Greenland, 1870-1873, during POLARIS Expedition with Charles Francis Hall.


2002.99.10

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