Alpaca Silver Ring Barbed Wire Control, War, Oppression

Description

* While barbed wire has always cut across property, war and politics as a tool of control, it has other histories, constructed through image and text in the arts, media and popular culture, which have never before been examined. Invented in France in 1860 and welcomed by the frontier farmers of America, the menacing qualities of barbed wire became evident in the Boer War, the barbed wire no-man's-land of World War I, and the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. Barbed wire became synonymous with repression. In the art of the late-twentieth century, its ambivalent character has made barbed wire the perfect symbol of post-modernity. * This ring has been handmade from highest quality Alpaca Silver. Alpaca Silver, also known as White Copper was discovered in the 18th century. In 1823 a competition was initiated in creating an alloy that possessed the closest visual similarity to silver. The brothers Henniger in Berlin and A. Geitner in Schneeberg won the competition by creating Òwhite metalÓ which until now is used in jewellery, cutlery and coins for its corrosion resistance. Nickel-free composite - will not cause allergies! * Handmade ring with perfectly polished surface and slightly oxydised carvings to show texture * The ring is 8mm wide