Re: Cow Brands...?

David Peterson wrote:




> Anyway, while I was contemplating what the Cherokee syllabary could
> possibly
> have to do with a Mexican restaurant, it was pointed out to me that they
> might, in
> fact, be cow brands.   This made me wonder if it was done all over the
> world,
> but
> nevertheless, it is (was?) done here.   And I was wondering: Does anyone
> know
> anything about the insignia used to brand cows or other livestock?   Is
> there
> some
> sort of website that collects such insigniae?   I figure if there was
> anyone
> that knew,
> someone here would.
Google, as usual, knows (search "cattle brands")-- among others:

http://www.frontiertimes.com/poster.html

No doubt one of the sites gets into the history and design aspects.  One
would suspect maybe they got the idea from the Spanish.  Now that I think of
it, some of the brands resemble the logos that late medieval printers used.

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