{"id":202,"date":"2016-05-22T23:29:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T06:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/?p=202"},"modified":"2016-05-23T08:26:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:26:20","slug":"diamond-in-the-rough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Diamond in the Rough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1871_apart_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1871_apart_01-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"1871_apart_01\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1871_apart_01-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1871_apart_01.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What I have here is another gunbroker find. \u00a0This one is a very\u00a0rare 1871 Colt Richards Mason Conversion .44 Colt. \u00a0One of the first Colt Metallic cartridge pistols.<\/p>\n<p>It has a few flaws&#8230; This is after many hours of cleaning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160522_225034.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-205\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160522_225034-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"1871 Serials\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160522_225034-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160522_225034-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/20160522_225034.jpg 1221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1871_apart_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1871_apart_02-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"1871_apart_02\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1871_apart_02-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1871_apart_02-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/1871_apart_02.jpg 1283w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking for Restoration options now.<\/p>\n<p>-Rob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I have here is another gunbroker find. \u00a0This one is a very\u00a0rare 1871 Colt Richards Mason Conversion .44 Colt. \u00a0One of the first Colt Metallic cartridge pistols. It has a few flaws&#8230; This is after many hours of cleaning. Looking for Restoration options now. -Rob<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katzbalgerarms.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}