Collecting comics doesn't make me feel QUITE as deviant anymore

[fantastic_four]

FINALLY, a group of collectors besides the coinees and philatecs out there that I can safely make fun of!

 

http://www.antiquebarbedwiresociety.com/

 

What the heck gets someone into collecting this? Seems like it'd go great with a ball-and-gag and torture device collection...

[RedRaven]

I heard about this a long time ago (I think it was mentioned back on an episode of the CBS sunday morning news show with Charles Kuralt). It was actually pretty interesting stuff. They followed on of the collectors around as he looked for strands of old fence that hadn't been taken down or even very old fence that was embedded inside trees. It would fall under the larger category of western Americana collecting.

[The Troll King]

Barbed wire is of historical significance and has been collected for decades.

[The Troll King]

I heard about this a long time ago (I think it was mentioned back on an episode of the CBS sunday morning news show with Charles Kuralt). It was actually pretty interesting stuff. They followed on of the collectors around as he looked for strands of old fence that hadn't been taken down or even very old fence that was embedded inside trees. It would fall under the larger category of western Americana collecting.

 

 

Right.

The different braiding patterns of the wire told early pioneer travelers who's property they were about to cross into.

 

Barbed wire was used as a designation the same as a brand on livestock.

[RedRaven]

As a kid I collected glass insulators from along the old railroad lines that ran across our ranch.

 

http://www.insulators.info/

[Comicopolis]

Collect this:

 

[ComicConnoisseur]

The North used barbed wire to help win the Civil War. I can see why historians would collect it.

[gaz2810i]

It's not something I would collect myself but I can totally see why someone would. There is a lot of historical significance Each to their own I say (thumbs u

[fantastic_four]

So what is it that makes barbed wire appealling enough to shell out thousands of bucks for? Is it something about the aesthetics of the piece itself, or is it entirely the history behind different types of barbed wire? Barbed wire itself seems to have no aesthetic value to me other than historic, but do collectors of this stuff disagree and find it really attractive?

[ComicConnoisseur]

So what is it that makes barbed wire appealling enough to shell out thousands of bucks for? Is it something about the aesthetics of the piece itself, or is it entirely the history behind different types of barbed wire? Barbed wire itself seems to have no aesthetic value to me other than historic, but do collectors of this stuff disagree and find it really attractive?

I know a lot of Civil War buffs that will pay big money for stuff like that but shake thier heads when I told them that people payed $12,000 for a New Mutants 98 cgc 9.9. Some people value thier hobby more than ours and we have to look at it from thier perspective.

[fantastic_four]

we have to look at it from thier perspective.

 

Oh yea, definitely--I'm trying to figure out their perspective. I know there is one, I just don't know what it is yet.

[RedRaven]

we have to look at it from thier perspective.

 

Oh yea, definitely--I'm trying to figure out their perspective. I know there is one, I just don't know what it is yet.

 

I can definitely see a WWI buff all over this sort of thing as well as

Western Americana collectors.

[fantastic_four]

I can definitely see a WWI buff all over this sort of thing as well as

Western Americana collectors.

 

Guns I get. I could see military uniforms. Furniture, sure. But barbed wire? Not as easy to relate to, seems quite upon first blush.

 

Which, by the way, is the exact same way I felt about people obsessing over comics being in perfect mint condition circa 1985, yet NOW look at me!

[RedRaven]

Guns I get. I could see military uniforms. Furniture, sure. But barbed wire? Not

 

How bout mixing antique barbed wire with furniture???

 

A mirror downstairs in my abode.

[fantastic_four]

Your mirror seems to be yelling to me "GET YO' OFFA MAH PROPERTY YA FILTHY VARMINT BEFORE I GO PULL OUT MAH SHOTGUN!"

[JiveTurkeyMoFo]

If memory serves, our own beloved Dr. Watson is a barbed wire collector.

[marvelcollector]

There's even a museum dedicated soley to the history of barbed wire. In Texas I think...

[fantastic_four]

There's even a museum dedicated soley to the history of barbed wire. In Texas I think...

 

If you told me there was a museum in Texas dedicated to guys who scream "YEEEEEE-HAAAAW" in the back up their pickup trucks while waving the Confederate flag and spitting chew, I'd believe that, too.

[jimjum12]

FINALLY, a group of collectors besides the coinees and philatecs out there that I can safely make fun of!

 

http://www.antiquebarbedwiresociety.com/

 

What the heck gets someone into collecting this? Seems like it'd go great with a ball-and-gag and torture device collection...

 

......perhaps you could sign up for their chat room....could prove interesting. GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

 

 

[spidrvacc]

I always say . There is a collector for everything. Its amazing. People collect spoons, Pens , hangers etc anything and everything no matter how obscure. Its amazing.