Livestock brands usually consists of one to three letters/figures, ( early one iron brands are hard to obtain ). Mine was a two letter/one figure brand when I had it. You read a brand top to bottom, from left to right, so mine reads < t, reverse p, slash >. I made it up with 2 inch letters and a 3in slash for a horse brand, made a nice small neat brand that showed owner ship without disfiguring the horses.
<I got a couple of pictures, better than my attempt at a graphic. >
