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UPCYCLED ANTIQUE "ALLIS' BUCKTHORN BARBED WIRE (1881-1900)" SCULPTURE CRUCIFIX BY CARLOS PLAZA, VENEZUELA 2019 - MEASURES 10" x 6" x 1" INCHES.
For sale is a genuine antique twisted steel metal Allis Buckhorn barb wire from the 1800s, on a wooden crucifix, handmade by Venezuelan conceptual artist Carlos Plaza in 2019.
A PARTIAL HISTORY OF BARBED WIRE:
In Back to the Future III, a lovelorn Doc Brown, stranded in 1885, is consoled by a traveling barbed wire salesman. It’s a period-accurate detail: barbed wire was patented in 1874 and spread across the american west over the next decade. It changed the meatpacking industry, created multiple fortunes, and nearly led to outright warfare. There’s even a plaque marking the spot of the first barbed wire fence in Texas.
The inventor of barbed wire is commonly held to be Joseph Glidden. The story goes that Glidden and two friends visited an Illinois county fair, where an exhibitor demonstrated a new technique in bovine control: strapping a board with nails to a cow’s head. If the cow tried to push past an enclosure, the nails would dig in and the cow would stop. Glidden and his friends looked at the contraption, then at each other, and said “why don’t we just make the fence that way?” The rest is history...
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