{"id":23468,"date":"2016-03-29T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/29\/explaining-my-backdrop-for-the-upcoming-ria-video-series\/"},"modified":"2016-03-29T08:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T13:00:02","slug":"explaining-my-backdrop-for-the-upcoming-ria-video-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/29\/explaining-my-backdrop-for-the-upcoming-ria-video-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining my Backdrop for the Upcoming RIA Video Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mj-y7Jrr-JA?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I am kicking off a long series of videos from the Rock Island Auction Company, and my backdrop this time is a set of deer antler mounts called the &#8220;Imperial Twins&#8221;. These two deer were from a joint hunt with Kaiser Wilhelm I and Emperor Franz Joseph in 1873. The antlers are original, but the original bronze deer heads were damaged beyond repair at some point and replaced with a pair of amazingly done wood carvings (using the originals as a guide). They make a really cool backdrop, and I know if I don&#8217;t explain them, I will get a whole ton of questions in the subsequent videos.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in trophy mounts, you can see a whole bunch like this that are part of a collection being sold by RIA, all from German aristocracy prior to WWI. In their catalog, look under the &#8220;Royal Hunt&#8221; special category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am kicking off a long series of videos from the Rock Island Auction Company, and my backdrop this time is a set of deer antler mounts called the &#8220;Imperial Twins&#8221;. These two deer were from a joint hunt with Kaiser Wilhelm I and Emperor Franz Joseph in 1873. The antlers are original, but the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/29\/explaining-my-backdrop-for-the-upcoming-ria-video-series\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explaining my Backdrop for the Upcoming RIA Video Series<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":23469,"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-23468","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\/23468","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}