brassheaded

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"Engraving of Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse, suspended two feet seven inches from the ceiling on a brassheaded nail supplied by a one-legged ironmonger whose Aunt Jane --"

Angel With No Hands Adams, Stephen 2005
It was quite big -- bigger even than mamma's traveling trunk -- and was studded all over with tarnished brassheaded nails.

American Fairy Tales 1887