Super Sculptural (and Surreal-esque) Old and Rusty Barbed Wire Ball carved spikes including Charles Edward Brittan (1837-1888)

including Charles Edward Brittan (1837-1888)

There are a couple of rough spots on the bottom sides

as if a window offering a view of a boy uncomfortably trapped inside the box

Inside pages show minor age toning and a few small stains along bottom edge on the first few pages

Super Sculptural (and Surreal-esque) Old and Rusty Barbed Wire Ball carved spikes including Charles Edward Brittan (1837-1888)I guess barbed wire balls are a thing people made, and make but I don't believe I've ever actually come across one before, and to me this thing is rather transcendent as an object and a sculpture, making me think at least as much of Meret Oppenheim, say, as it does of a tumbleweed. No small feat to form such a dense and beautifully composed sphere as this while navigating the strength of the iron wire and its barbs either (!), yielding an object both