{"id":8479,"date":"2016-04-06T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/06\/norwegian-1846-postforerverge-knife-pistol\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:31:15","slug":"norwegian-1846-postforerverge-knife-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/06\/norwegian-1846-postforerverge-knife-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian 1846 Postf\u00f8rerverge Knife-Pistol?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WyrE3FSU01w?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><br \/>\nSold at auction for $4,600.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the more practical knife\/pistol combinations I have seen &#8211; it actually has a pretty reasonable grip when used in either capacity. It has two muzzleloading smoothbore barrels, with a percussion cap hidden under each top ear of the crossguard and a folding trigger in the body of the grip. <\/p>\n<p>After I had finished filming, it was brought to my attention that while it does not have the proper markings, this piece is very, very similar to an 1846 Postf\u00f8rerverge &#8211; a double-barreled blade\/gun issued to Norwegian postal employees after a rash of deadly assaults on rural postal workers. Those were made from 1846 until 1854, with a total of 152 being manufactured. Could this be one with the markings worn off or removed? Perhaps. It could also be a commercial copy, or something else entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Sold at auction for $4,600. This is one of the more practical knife\/pistol combinations I have seen &#8211; it actually has a pretty reasonable grip when used in either capacity. It has two muzzleloading smoothbore barrels, with a percussion cap hidden under each top ear of the crossguard and a folding trigger in the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/06\/norwegian-1846-postforerverge-knife-pistol\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Norwegian 1846 Postf\u00f8rerverge Knife-Pistol?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8480,"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-8479","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\/8479","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=8479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15355,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8479\/revisions\/15355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}