{"id":29834,"date":"2026-06-30T14:43:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/the-most-expensive-rifle-ever-sold-henry-serial-no-1-5-875-million\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T14:43:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:43:36","slug":"the-most-expensive-rifle-ever-sold-henry-serial-no-1-5-875-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/the-most-expensive-rifle-ever-sold-henry-serial-no-1-5-875-million\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Expensive Rifle Ever Sold | Henry Serial No. 1 | (5.875 MILLION)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KjVgy4D3Bsk?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Watch the historic sale of Henry Rifle Serial No. 1, presented to President Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton. This American treasure sold for $5.875 million \u2014 a world record for a Winchester rifle and the most expensive rifle ever sold. <\/p>\n<p>Its $5 million hammer price also matched the world record for the highest-priced firearm ever sold. <\/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 \/>X: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#HenryRifle #Lincoln #AmericanHistory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the historic sale of Henry Rifle Serial No. 1, presented to President Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton. This American treasure sold for $5.875 million \u2014 a world record for a Winchester rifle and the most expensive rifle ever sold. Its $5 million hammer price also matched the world record for the highest-priced&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/the-most-expensive-rifle-ever-sold-henry-serial-no-1-5-875-million\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Most Expensive Rifle Ever Sold | Henry Serial No. 1 | (5.875 MILLION)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":29835,"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-29834","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\/29834","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=29834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}