{"id":19798,"date":"2022-01-28T16:11:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T22:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/28\/holland-hollands-paradox-gun\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T16:11:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T22:11:18","slug":"holland-hollands-paradox-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/28\/holland-hollands-paradox-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Holland &#038; Holland&#8217;s Paradox Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zFpJpFJj8pQ?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;A paradox, a paradox, a most ingenious paradox!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Lt. Col. George Vincent Fosbery wanted a gun capable of firing both rifle rounds and shotgun rounds, but that left him in&#8230; a bit of a paradox. Rifle rounds need rifling and shotgun shot requires a smooth bore. What&#8217;s a creative Brit to do?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is Fosbery&#8217;s Paradox gun. Patented in 1885 and produced quickly thereafter by London gunmaker Holland &#038; Holland, the Paradox was a innovative thinking that would see use against small upland game birds, as well as the mighty African elephant.<\/p>\n<p>This particular Paradox gun is more than just a patent. We&#8217;ll cover its unusual rarity, its fantastic story, and the famous collection that housed it.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A paradox, a paradox, a most ingenious paradox!&#8221; Lt. Col. George Vincent Fosbery wanted a gun capable of firing both rifle rounds and shotgun rounds, but that left him in&#8230; a bit of a paradox. Rifle rounds need rifling and shotgun shot requires a smooth bore. What&#8217;s a creative Brit to do? The answer is&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/28\/holland-hollands-paradox-gun\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holland &#038; Holland&#8217;s Paradox Gun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":19799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}