{"id":7844,"date":"2013-10-17T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/17\/book-review-iver-johnson-arms-cycle-works-firearms-1871-1993\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:29:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:29:26","slug":"book-review-iver-johnson-arms-cycle-works-firearms-1871-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/17\/book-review-iver-johnson-arms-cycle-works-firearms-1871-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Iver Johnson Arms &amp; Cycle Works Firearms 1871-1993"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bxrZo7jmYIQ?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Iver Johnson company doesn&#8217;t get much respect or recognition these days, but they made a staggering number of generally very good, inexpensive handguns for many decades. The &#8220;cheap&#8221; image of the brand has largely prevented a significant collector appeal, and in turn a lack of good research or documentation. The exception to that trend is Bill Goforth, whom I have to believe ignored a great many snickers and jeers and spent a great deal of time and effort amassing a collection of Iver Johnson firearms and studiously researching their history. Mr. Goforth is sadly passed away now, but his knowledge lives on in the book he wrote, entitled Iver Johnson: Arms &#038; Cycle Works Firearms 1871-1993. It is a heavily data-oriented volume, and an excellent resource for identifying and dating Iver Johnson revolvers (its coverage of long guns is minimal).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iver Johnson company doesn&#8217;t get much respect or recognition these days, but they made a staggering number of generally very good, inexpensive handguns for many decades. The &#8220;cheap&#8221; image of the brand has largely prevented a significant collector appeal, and in turn a lack of good research or documentation. The exception to that trend&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/17\/book-review-iver-johnson-arms-cycle-works-firearms-1871-1993\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Review: Iver Johnson Arms &amp; Cycle Works Firearms 1871-1993<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7845,"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-7844","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\/7844","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=7844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15834,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions\/15834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}