Sorry, Beadiste, can you explain your comment about the bibliography item? This time, I'm not following.

Beadsite, I believe you posted the link to the great shop sign article on virtual cities, but I just went through your posts and couldn't find it. So, just in case, here it is or is again:

http://beijing.virtualcities.fr/Texts/Articles?ID=50

From the bibliography in the above article: "The Tenri Museum has a copy of The Shop Signs of Peking (Yan du shangbang tu) (Beiping: Chinese Painting Association of Peking, 1931), which includes a document (Yan du shangbang tu dizhi) with the addresses of all the shops that displayed the shop signs represented in the book. I hope to get a copy of this document and to map out these locations on a map of Republican Beijing. Pekin no kanban, p. 16"

http://www.tenri-u.ac.jp/topics/q3tncs00000gd453-att/q3tncs00000gd4eh.pdf
This makes reference to some signs having been lost but not the list.

http://www.tenri-u.ac.jp/topics/q3tncs00000gd396-att/q3tncs00000gd3gb.pdf

I think these signs are so cool. I'm happy to know others do too!