{"id":26779,"date":"2025-04-11T12:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/the-finest-colt-single-action-army\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T12:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:06:16","slug":"the-finest-colt-single-action-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/the-finest-colt-single-action-army\/","title":{"rendered":"The Finest Colt Single Action Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5DaM2KvU59Y?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>L.D. Nimschke&#8217;s masterpiece Colt Single Action Army is proof that not all art is framed. It transcends fine arms collecting.<\/p>\n<p>It is work from a generation talent, at the peak of his career, placed on its most important surface: the Colt Single Action Army &#8211; the most significant and iconic American firearm ever made.  The result is forever known as Black Beauty.<\/p>\n<p>This is Nimschke displaying his talent to the world, with the most gold he ever imbued onto a single piece. It is elegant, in superb condition, worthy of any institutional collection, and comes to Rock Island Auction courtesy of the celebrated Brig &#038; Louise Pemberton Collection. <\/p>\n<p>1:13 &#8211; The Colt SAA is Part of the American DNA.<br \/>8:23 &#8211; Who is Louis Daniel Nimschke?<br \/>12:38 &#8211; Comparing other Nimschke Masterpieces<br \/>14:01 &#8211; Black Beauty<br \/>15:04 &#8211; Provenance<br \/>17:34 &#8211; The Ink Pulls<br \/>20:04 &#8211; Comparing the BEST Known Single Actions<br \/>22:57 &#8211; Why is this a masterpiece?<\/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>L.D. Nimschke&#8217;s masterpiece Colt Single Action Army is proof that not all art is framed. It transcends fine arms collecting. It is work from a generation talent, at the peak of his career, placed on its most important surface: the Colt Single Action Army &#8211; the most significant and iconic American firearm ever made. The&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/the-finest-colt-single-action-army\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Finest Colt Single Action Army<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":26780,"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-26779","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\/26779","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=26779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}