1,000+. Examples Bobbed Barbed Wire Identification Patents / Scarce Illust. Book

Description

BARRIERS - AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UNITED STATES BARBED FENCE PATENTS
by Robert Campbel and Vernon Allison, Western Profiles Publishing Co, CO, 1986.
Detailed patent line drawings highlight this early out-of-print book on early barbed wire.  Approximately 1,000 different types of barbed wire are pictured and identified including name, maker, and patent date when known.  Considered the "bible" of barbed wire, the book "provides a comprehensive central source of United States barbed fence patents and is intended to be a technically accurate, practical guide for the identification of barbed fencing."
8.7" x 11.3" hardback in very good
condition (dust cover shows edge wear/repaired tears)
.   460 pages.
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