{"id":26605,"date":"2025-03-14T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/the-birth-of-venus-purdey-shotgun\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T07:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T12:00:07","slug":"the-birth-of-venus-purdey-shotgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/the-birth-of-venus-purdey-shotgun\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Birth of Venus&#8221; Purdey Shotgun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1o5IWAhXfxc?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Master engraver Ken C. Hunt has painstakingly engraved and carved this Purdey side-by-side shotgun, culminating on the receiver&#8217;s bottom with a remarkable recreation of Sandro Botticelli&#8217;s timeless painting &#8220;The Birth of Venus.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This extraordinary piece was commissioned by astute collector Norman R. Blank from the world renowned gunmakers at Purdey &#8211; a fantastic blend of arms and artistry.<\/p>\n<p>Truly, not all art is framed.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Email: <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><br \/>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master engraver Ken C. Hunt has painstakingly engraved and carved this Purdey side-by-side shotgun, culminating on the receiver&#8217;s bottom with a remarkable recreation of Sandro Botticelli&#8217;s timeless painting &#8220;The Birth of Venus.&#8221; This extraordinary piece was commissioned by astute collector Norman R. Blank from the world renowned gunmakers at Purdey &#8211; a fantastic blend of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/the-birth-of-venus-purdey-shotgun\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Birth of Venus&#8221; Purdey Shotgun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":26606,"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-26605","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\/26605","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=26605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}