Waterlow & Sons

Waterlow & Sons was a prolific and long-lived engraver and printer of postage and revenue/fiscal stamps, currency and stock/bond certificates. They were involved with stamp production from the very beginnings of stamps including the creatinon of the engraved Cape of Good Hope triangles, among many others. They are typically connected to British and British colonial stamps but also produced designs for many other countries.

Their reference and sample collection had stamps created by them printed in small sheetlets without gum including color trials. Each stamp was overprinted WATERLOW & SONS / SPECIMEN diagonally and was punched with a small hole. These were sold off at some point.

Waterlow & Sons was bought by De La Rue & Co. in 1961. 



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