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Offline Capt Hamp Cox

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The History of Cattle Brands
« on: February 12, 2003, 03:37:23 PM »
http://www.barbwiremuseum.com/cattlebrandhistory.htm

This site also has a brief history of barbed wire.
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The History of Cattle Brands
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2003, 02:25:18 PM »
Branding irons and barbed wire are really big collector items in some areas in the West.  My wifes uncle has been a surveyor out of Lovington,NM since he got home from WWII and has run across a lot of old barbed wire.  He gave me some examples, but he didn't know that it had to be of a certain length to be collectable (16 or 18" I forget which) .  Still, they're interesting, and I have them tacked up in my shop.

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« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2003, 01:58:00 AM »
About the only place you can find some of that really old stuff now is in collections.
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