GUN FALL 2015
The live portion of this session begins on Monday, October 5, 2015.
CONTEMPORARY RELIEF CARVED RIFLE BY JON LAUBACH GUNSMITH OF COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG.J. LAUBACHKY RIFLENSN50MODERN; C&RCal. .50. Overall length 58", 4-5/8" x 2" buttplate. 42" full oct rifled bbl, signed in script "J.D. Laubach Wmsbg. PA. 1974". The curly maple stock is relief carved forward and rear of the cheek piece, around the bbl tang, and around the rear ramrod pipe. High quality molding runs from the rear ramrod pipe to the nosecap along the forend. The quality of the carving is, of course, outstanding as would be expected from the gunsmith of Williamsburg. The 4-pc brass patchbox is intricately engraved and has 1 piercing. The rifle is made in the late 18th century style typical of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. 4-5/8" brass side plate is also engraved. Jon Laubach born in Allentown, PA, in 1946, apprentice to Wallace Gusler at the Colonial Williamsburg Gun shop. He finished his apprenticeship under Gary Brunfield, then master of the gun shop, in 1974. This rifle is dated 1974, the first year he completed his apprenticeship. Jon continued in the gun shop until 1988. There are few who have mastered the process of making an entirely handmade rifle using only 18th century technology and processes, and Jon is one of them. CONDITION: This rifle is basically as new throughout and is of the high quality associated with the very desirable rifles made in the Colonial Williamsburg gun shop. 49596-1 RGG (6,000-10,000)