High quality, high grade engraver. His work is usually only found on O/U and SxS shotguns but being a freelanse engraver most all his career (maybe all of it),,other pieces as well.
Born in'39 in Gardone Valtrompia, Italy. Right in the middle of the firearms mfg district of Italy.
He lived in Brescia, (Marone) last info I can find on him in an old (1980!) engravers book.
There's a small picture of him at his bench with the above info plus a few pics of his work in the book here and there.
I hesitate to post because of copyright issues.
His work is right there with the Italian engravers of the day,,Pedretti, Tomasoni, Giovanelli, ect.
The Galeazzis' probably did more to increase the awareness of the talent of the Italian gun engravers in the 70's and 80's.
There were and are many, many talanted engravers from Italy doing work whos names never get mentioned or recognized.
I wouldn't expect even most engravers to recognize his name. Probably more high grade Italian shotgun enthusiasts would.
There were and are still a couple Engraving firms that employ many talanted engravers there. They teach as well as turn out first class work. Many of the engravers go out on their own,,some stay.
'Creative Art' is one,,and that's the name that will be signed on the piece in most all cases unless a certain engraver's name will bring greater money.
The workshop of (Cesare(?) Giovanelli was another.
Most all the high grade work of the Italian shotgun makers is 'sent out' to one of these firms or a freelanser. The lower grade stuff is done 'in house' generally but even some of that is sent out.
It's all just financial decisions. It's very expensive to have engraver(s) on a factory payroll. It's easier to just send the work out. They have a great many to choose from in that reletively small area in Italy.
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