{"id":21561,"date":"2022-12-15T11:14:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T17:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/15\/a-gettysburg-generals-tiffany-sword-colt-root-sell-for\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T11:14:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T17:14:03","slug":"a-gettysburg-generals-tiffany-sword-colt-root-sell-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/15\/a-gettysburg-generals-tiffany-sword-colt-root-sell-for\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gettysburg General&#8217;s Tiffany Sword &#038; Colt Root Sell for&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/35jSKcFkyag?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A Medal of Honor recipient. A Civil War commander who lost his leg at Gettsyburg. A thief. A murderer.  Major General Daniel Sickles remains today one of the most controversial figures of his era.<\/p>\n<p>However one views Sickles today, his personal weapons remain prized objects for collectors. A gilt, silver-gripped sword by Collins &#038; Co. was wonderfully embellished by none other than renowned American artisan Tiffany &#038; Co. Sickles can be seen proudly wearing it in a period photograph.<\/p>\n<p>The second is a fine cased, factory engraved Colt 1855 &#8220;Root&#8221; revolver presented to him by Colt, with checkered and monogrammed grips. <\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Email: <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><br \/>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Medal of Honor recipient. A Civil War commander who lost his leg at Gettsyburg. A thief. A murderer. Major General Daniel Sickles remains today one of the most controversial figures of his era. However one views Sickles today, his personal weapons remain prized objects for collectors. A gilt, silver-gripped sword by Collins &#038; Co.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/15\/a-gettysburg-generals-tiffany-sword-colt-root-sell-for\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Gettysburg General&#8217;s Tiffany Sword &#038; Colt Root Sell for&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":21562,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21561","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=21561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}