Tommy Chiu's
ChinaPhilately.com
'..dedicated to the stamps and cancellations of Imperial China
Tommy is a "member of The China Stamp Society, The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada and The China Philatelic Society of London."
His "purpose of this web site is to promote China Philately and also try to increase interest in classical Chinese stamps collecting."
1998 saw "... the centenary of the issue of the so-called 'Waterlow Stamps'.
A good reason to pay attention, by way of a series of articles, to this
fine and exciting issue ...
The article was largely inspired by 'The Waterlow
Issue of 1898' by Beales and Aglen, which is based on a study of the archives of Waterlow & Sons Ltd.
About a hundred years ago, the Chinese Imperial Post issued their second postage series. This series
is known as the Waterlow Issue, after the printers Waterlow and Sons Ltd. ..
Contents:
Introduction
Historical background
Numbers printed
Characteristics of the stamps
Summary of the characteristics
Colours
Papers
Die types, Plates, Retouches
Printings, Paper
Perforation
A survey of the perforation
Bibliography
An OnLine Publication from D & O Trading, The Netherlands
Offers the '
Complete Stamp Collection of China' - on a CDROM
- produced and published by Optical Memory National ERC, Tsinghua
University. Covers 1878-1993 = "... surely a stamp
encyclopedia of China... includes photos and video clips
associated with the stamps' historical background ..."