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Cattle brands used in Mitchell County in West Texas are displayed on a public mural in Colorado City, Texas Branding irons from the Grant-Kohrs Ranch Branding iron from Swedish stallion depot Most brands in the United States include capital letters or numerals , often combined with other symbols such as a slash, circle, half circle, cross, or bar.
The branding iron consisted of an iron rod with a simple symbol or mark which was heated in a fire. After the branding iron turned red-hot, the cowhand pressed the branding iron against the hide of the cow. The unique brand meant that cattle owned by multiple owners could then graze freely together on the commons or open range.
Cattle being earmarked and electrically branded An earmarked donkey. An earmark is a cut or mark in the ear of livestock animals such as cattle, deer, pigs, goats, camels or sheep, made to show ownership, year of birth or sex. The term dates to the 16th century in England. [1]
Livestock branding is known for thousands of years (the Code of Hammurabi mandated it almost 4000 years ago [6]); other forms of signs indicating ownership are monograms and heraldic symbols. [11] Libraries use ownership marks in the form of bookplates, rubber stamps, embossed seals. [12]
in the 1870s, when Levi Strauss invented his famous blue jeans, they were known simply as "XX." Two decades later, they were given the lot number "501®" and to this day, that three-digit number ...
Human branding or stigmatizing is the process by which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person, with the intention of the resulting scar making it permanent. This is performed using a hot or very cold branding iron.
Tamgha of the Bayundur, which represents a falcon according to Mahmud al-Kashgari. A tamga or tamgha (from Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰢𐰍𐰀, romanized: tamga, lit. 'stamp, seal'; Turkish: damga; Mongolian: tamga; Adyghe: тамыгъэ, romanized: tamığə; Kabardian: дамыгъэ, romanized: damığə) was an abstract seal or brand used by Eurasian nomads initially as a livestock branding, and ...
A technique for marking and identifying livestock in which a permanent scar, known as a brand, is made in the animal's hide, traditionally by applying an extremely hot or cold branding iron which has been shaped or placed in such a way as to create a unique, specific symbol or series of numbers, usually for the purpose of indicating ownership. [2]