{"id":6252,"date":"2016-03-09T12:02:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T12:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/09\/the-gun-as-art-tiffany-colts-from-two-eras\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:31:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:31:30","slug":"the-gun-as-art-tiffany-colts-from-two-eras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/09\/the-gun-as-art-tiffany-colts-from-two-eras\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gun as Art: Tiffany Colts from Two Eras"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M7Gr-Y-mYQU?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nimschke Cartridge Conversion did not sell.<br \/>\nAmerican Eagle 1860 sold for $17,250.<\/p>\n<p>The famous American jewelry company Tiffany &#038; Co has a long history of offering decorative firearms, and today I&#8217;m looking at two of them. One is a cartridge conversion Colt from the 1870s, engraved by Nimschke and fitted with a silver-plated Tiffany &#8220;Mexican Eagle&#8221; grip. The other is a modern-production 1860 Army designed by Tiffany for the US Historical Society and produced by Andrew Bourbon. <\/p>\n<p>While I do not normally have a particular taste for embellished and engraved guns, I think it&#8217;s very interesting to see the difference in style between the two periods &#8211; the change in what people find appealing in &#8220;the gun as art.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Nimschke Cartridge Conversion did not sell. American Eagle 1860 sold for $17,250. The famous American jewelry company Tiffany &#038; Co has a long history of offering decorative firearms, and today I&#8217;m looking at two of them. One is a cartridge conversion Colt from the 1870s, engraved by Nimschke and fitted with a silver-plated Tiffany&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/09\/the-gun-as-art-tiffany-colts-from-two-eras\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Gun as Art: Tiffany Colts from Two Eras<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6253,"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-6252","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\/6252","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=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15380,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions\/15380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}