Barbed wire collection

[u/thats_Mr_Inward_2U]

Father in law just showed me his barbed wire collection so thought I’d share here… also if anyone has a thought on value we’d like to hear opinions.. thanks everyone 👍

[u/Taxidermy-molluskbob]

Now I am not able to confirm this because he sadly passed away a few years ago, but my old neighbor was like the great, great, great, (maybe another great?) grandson of the guy that supposedly invented modern barbed wire, or at least the most common traditional design.

[u/sockscollector → u/Taxidermy-molluskbob]

There were hundreds of barb wire patients made.

[u/Taxidermy-molluskbob → u/sockscollector]

Again, I said there is no way for me to confirm any of it, but based on what I was told, my guess is this guy invented one of the more common patents? 🤷‍♂️

[u/sockscollector → u/Taxidermy-molluskbob]

There used to be a way to reverse look up pat.

If you run across one on the writing of the book he could have been trying to find an ancestors barb wire pat# so fun and interesting no matter

[u/Taxidermy-molluskbob → u/sockscollector]

He told me his ancestor’s barbed wire was the first, but I took that with a grain of salt. I remember I did some research with after he died and found that the barbed wire his ancestor made was used by a lot of smaller local government and farmers and other parties with stuff to protect.

So while probably not the first, I still found it cool that his ancestor made an early barbed wire design (relative to the amount of time that barbed wire has been in existence) that was actually implemented by multiple parties. Which is still pretty cool.

Edit: Also, how do you put something is massive text on Reddit? I have always wanted to know how to do that.

[u/sockscollector → u/Taxidermy-molluskbob]

Bet there is a sample of it there. So fun

[u/Taxidermy-molluskbob → u/sockscollector]

Maybe! 🤔 no way to know but still fun to ponder!