{"id":26797,"date":"2025-04-01T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/tommy-gun-from-the-battle-of-blair-mountain\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T21:00:27","slug":"tommy-gun-from-the-battle-of-blair-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/tommy-gun-from-the-battle-of-blair-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Gun from the Battle of Blair Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bxrrJIUeHzE?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Not only is this Thompson submachine gun a first year production, two-digit serial number Model 1921, it was also shipped to Logan County, West Virginia during the Coal Wars mere months before the Battle of Blair Mountain.<\/p>\n<p>This is the earliest Tommy Gun RIAC has ever offered at auction, and one of the earliest known incidents of Thompsons being fired in anger.<\/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>Not only is this Thompson submachine gun a first year production, two-digit serial number Model 1921, it was also shipped to Logan County, West Virginia during the Coal Wars mere months before the Battle of Blair Mountain. This is the earliest Tommy Gun RIAC has ever offered at auction, and one of the earliest known&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/tommy-gun-from-the-battle-of-blair-mountain\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tommy Gun from the Battle of Blair Mountain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":26798,"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-26797","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\/26797","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=26797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}