Title

Obituary: Charles Buckland Shugg..

Author

The Argus.

Source

Argus (Melbourne).

Details

18 September 1933, page 8.

Publication date

18 September 1933

Physical description

illustrations 1 b&w portrait.

Type

Obituary

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Web address

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Mr. Charles B. Shugg.

Many persons in Melbourne and Sydney will learn with deep regret of the death of Mr. C. B. Shugg, a director of Patterson, Shugg Pty.Ltd., which occurred at his home in  Westley Avenue, lvanhoe, early on Saturday morning. He was aged 67 years.

The name of Charles Buckland Shugg is notable among printers and engravers because he made the first zinc blocks for printing in Melbourne in 1888. Before coming to Melbourne he had been employed in the office of the "Bulletin."Sydney, having been brought specially from the United States to establish in that office the gelatine process of block making. In 1883 Mr. W. H. Traill, the manager of the "Bulletin" had brought from the United States. Mr L Hopkins, who, as "Hop," achieved fame as one of Australia's leading black-and-white Artists. "Hop" had formerly been employed by "Harper's Monthly." In the "Bulletin" office "Hop"had to draw his work backward on zinc, and the etcher then etched away the unwanted part of the plate This proved so unsatisfactory that Mr. Traill invited Proctor Shugg, a well known newspaper engraver of New York, to come to Australia, but Proctor Shugg, being unable to leave sent his young cousin C. B. Shugg, in his place. Young Shugg's father had been an artist and engraver, and among his tasks had been the engraving of posters for Barnum's circus on pine blocks 30 by 40 inches in size. When C. B. Shugg arrived in the "Bulletin" office he found that the gelatine process that he had been brought out to establish was too slow, and he began to make zinc blocks. In this medium he etched many of the early drawings of "Hop" and Phil May. He left the "Bulletin" after three and a half years and came to Melbourne.

In 1808 Mr. Shugg entered into partnership with Mr. John Patterson, and they founded the firm of Patterson, Shugg Pty. Ltd., process engravers, of Hardware street, Melbourne. Mr. Shugg was a director of the company, and also of Directoplate Litho Pty. Ltd., photo lithographers, and of McDiarmid Bros. Pty. Ltd., stereo-typers. He was a member of the Rotary Club and a leading Freemason.

Mr. Shugg leaves a widow and three sons - Dr. A. E. Shugg, of Hobart; Mr. C. P. Shugg, of Patterson, Shugg Pty. Ltd., and Mr. E. I. Shugg, of Directoplate Litho Pty. Ltd. The funeral will leave the residence at 11 o'clock this morning for the Boroondara Cemetery, Kew.