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Alfredo Campos 12-color Horsehair Quirt

Currency:USD Category:Antiques Start Price:1,500.00 USD Estimated At:3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD
Alfredo Campos 12-color Horsehair Quirt
Dazzling hitched-braided horsehair quirt measuring 40” in overall length from the top of the handle to the tip of the leather popper. Signed by the master, award winning braider inside the handle, the quirt has multiple American flags with discernible stars and stripes on the handle, and diamonds on the large knots and overall geometrics in red, turquoise, yellow, black, white, purple, green, orange, maroon, pink, & brown

Unrivaled in the lost art of horse­hair hitching, Alfredo Campos is intimately involved in every step of the process from gathering hair to dyeing, then designing the final product. Campos points out that he has never been to prison, but did study historic penitentiary-made pieces in order to master the complex knots and patterns.