Collecting By Engraver

The opening of Parliament in Canberra was designed by RA harrison and engraved by JAC Harrison in the UK. It was issued in 1927.

The 1929 Perth to Adelaide Airmail issue was designed by RA Harrison and H Herbert and engraved by A Taylor

The Centenary of Western Australia was commemorated with the swan stamp below. This was FD Manley's first engraving for Australia. From this point on he dominated both the design and engraving of Australian stamps till his last engraving, the 1962 1/- Platypus. The pink swan was designed by G Pitt Morrison:



The centre swan is absolutely beautiful at any (almost) magnification.

The following were designed and engraved by FD Manley:

Sturt's Centenary:




Kingsford Smith's Flights


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The opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (designed by RA Harrison)




The Centenary of South Australia





I really like FD Manley's work, I think he rivals some of the best engravers in the world.

More of Manley's art:

The ANZAC cenotaph in London, designed by B Cottier and modified and engraved by FDM



KGV on his horse "Anzac"






The 150th Anniversary of New South Wales, designed and engraved by FD Manley and E. Broad

Australian Armed Forces, designed by FD Manley and based on a design by Virgil Reilly; engraved by FD Manley





The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester; designed and engraved by FDM






PEACE designed and engraved by FDM




Centenary of Mitchell's exploration, designed and engraved by FDM

Manley trained a number of engravers, One of these was ERM Jones, who engraved two lovely stamps, designed by FDM

Henry lawson:




And one of the most popular designs/engravings: The Aborigine affectionately known as One Pound Jimmy:



This design/engraving was also released as a 2/6 stamp ...and reprinted number of times

FD Manley designed and engraved many more stamps for Australia and Norfolk Island. I'll give some one else a turn now.

cheers and thanks for looking

alex

Beautiful engravings Perf. FD Manley is, as you said, amongst the best engravers in the world, no doubt.

Taylor and Harrison aren't bad at all either.

Just makes one wish we had enough time and money to own all of these great engravings. But these photos and scans are close enough. Would have never known about these magnificent works of art without all your contributions on this wonderful forum.

Thank you very much, AndrewF31, and I totally agree that this is a great thread in a great forum.

Perf14 - Nice stamps; but who swiped their perfs? :) - nethryk

Antonio Ciaburro (1951- ) is an Italian artist and engraver. After graduating from college with an art degree, he studied design for two years at the Rome Academy of Fine Arts under the painter and poet Professor Antonio (Toti) Scialoja (1914-1998). Since 1976 Ciaburro has been employed by Italy's Instituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, for which he has designed or engraved over a hundred pieces of Italian, Vatican, and San Marinese postal paper. Il Collezionista magazine, the Bolaffi house organ, awarded Ciaburro its Cavallino d'Oro prize for his philatelic designs. Here are images of some stamps issued by Italy which demonstrate Ciaburro's outstanding engraving skills.

- nethryk

Pope Pius XII (1876-1958), issued on March 21, 1983, Scott No. 1545.


Father Pio da Pietrelcina, Italian Capuchin priest, canonized in 2002, issued on September 23, 1998, Scott No. 2256.


Giuseppe Parini, Italian poet, issued on October 2, 1999, Scott No. 2308.


Perseus, after a statue by Italian sculptor Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71), offset and engraved, and issued on November 3, 2000, Scott No. 2379.


University of Pavia, issued on September 29, 2001, Scott No. 2425.


University of Bari, issued on September 29, 2001, Scott No. 2426.

laughing out loud - I would have thought with a name like Perf14 that the perfs would have been there. Laughing aside, they are beautifully scanned images and great looking stamps.

I figured that the perfs were never part of the engraver's work so were not necessary and could be a 'distractor' to the artistic beauty of the engraver's work. Some of us may focus on some pulled perfs etc...anything is possible

Great scans of Ciaburro's work, nethryk!

I may have to add him to my list for my engraver's album, which is still only a series of 0's and 1's on my HD, soon I'll start printing it. Each page takes a lot of ink so I am making triply sure that they are the best I can come up with.

alex