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Post by greaden on Dec 29, 2020 14:44:33 GMT
Also received today, Thurn & Taxis, MiNr. 31, on piece, 3 silver Groschen, light brown, imperforate: The postmark is 302, for Lübeck.
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hrdoktorx
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 10, 2021 20:06:26 GMT
Another arrival this week from the Thurn & Taxis, MiNr. 6B, 3 Silver Groschen, black on yellow:
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REL1948
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Post by REL1948 on Sept 5, 2023 16:19:47 GMT
Here are some page scans of the German State: Thurn and Taxis, Northern and Southern Districts that were in the recent find. The first page starts with Scott number 1 for the Northern District starting in 1862 moving on to the Southern District ending in 1867 after which, the State of Thurn and Taxis became Prussia. Forgeries abound among many of these issues.
The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis is a family of German nobility that is part of the Briefadel. It was a key player in the postal services in Europe during the 16th century, until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, and became well known as the owner of breweries and the commissioner of several castles. The family has resided in Regensburg since 1748, staying at St. Emmeram Castle since 1803. The family is one of the wealthiest in Germany. The current head of the House is Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis.
Rob
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rednaxela
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What I collect: Germany in all its facets since 1871 (especially German Reich used including postal statinoneries, used), USSR, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Denmark, France. I design all album pages for my collection myself and partly make them available to the general public for use.
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Post by rednaxela on Sept 21, 2023 21:04:45 GMT
Here are some page scans of the German State: Thurn and Taxis, Northern and Southern Districts that were in the recent find. The first page starts with Scott number 1 for the Northern District starting in 1862 moving on to the Southern District ending in 1867 after which, the State of Thurn and Taxis became Prussia. Forgeries abound among many of these issues.
The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis is a family of German nobility that is part of the Briefadel. It was a key player in the postal services in Europe during the 16th century, until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, and became well known as the owner of breweries and the commissioner of several castles. The family has resided in Regensburg since 1748, staying at St. Emmeram Castle since 1803. The family is one of the wealthiest in Germany. The current head of the House is Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis.
Rob Here are some more detailed notes on Thurn and Taxis: Thurn und Taxis was not a German "state", but a family business that provided postal services for several countries of the German Confederation from the foundation of the German Confederation in 1816 until 1868. The members of the German Confederation, for which Thurn and Taxis provides postal service were: the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Nassau, Saxony-Weimar, Saxony-Meiningen, Coburg-Gotha, the Principalities of Reuss and Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, the Free Cities of Frankfurt, Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck, the Principalities of Hohenzollern, Lippe-Detmold and Schaumburg-Lippe. The Thurn and Taxis Post joined the German-Austrian Postal Union in 1850. In 1852, the first Thurn and Taxis stamps were issued. The distinction between the Northern District and the Southern District is based on the respective location of the individual german countries for which Thurn und Taxis provided the postal service within the German Confederation. A distinction must be made according to the currency in use locally at the time: the thaler currency applied in the northern part of Germany, and the guilder currency applied in the southern part. The Dresden Mint Treaty of 1838 tied the thaler currency and the guilder currency together in the ratio of 2 talers equals 3½ guilders. Accordingly, the Thurn and Taxis postal company issued parallel stamp issues in thaler currency and those in guilder currency. (This dual currency system continued to apply in Germany for a while also after the founding of the German Empire in 1871, as the first stamps of the German Empire - the embossed imperial eagle - show). The Thurn und Taxis family lived - and still lives - in Regensburg, but the administrative headquarters of the Thurn und Taxis postal company was in Frankfurt am Main: Regensburg is in Bavaria, which at that time operated an own state postal service. Therefore, Regensburg did not really fit as the administrative headquarters of this postal service of Thurn and Taxis. In 1867, the Thurn und Taxis family was pressured into ceding the postal service it operated to the state of Prussia: In the inner-German competition for political supremacy between the two leading princely houses of Habsburg and Hohenzollern, Thurn und Taxis had backed the wrong horse with Habsburg, as Hohenzollern prevailed...
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