(wm-pcp) DASV is the well-known abbreviation for the German Old Letter Collectors’ Association (Deutscher Altbriefsammler-Verein e.V.), which publishes several newsletters each year, each well over 100 pages long. This autumn, once again, it features some very unusual and downright exciting topics. Dr Joachim Helbig writes about ‘Terrible days in the Puster Valley’, Horst Diederichs about a ‘Foreign post office of the Imperial-Taxis Reichspost in Bohemia approx. 1680–1818’, Heinrich Mimberg focuses on the FUES family of papermakers, the paper suppliers for the Thurn und Taxis stamps and passenger transport at the Thurn und Taxis Post, while Michael Maaßen takes up the ‘American dream, a most unusual family and the supposedly richest dog in the world’.
In the series Postgeschichte und Altbriefkunde (Postal History and Old Letter Studies, issue 226/October 2025), Horst Diederichs covers two topics in 60 pages: “On the introduction – “invention” – of travel tickets: A search for clues between 1664 and 1806‘ and ’On the introduction of printed extra post travel tickets at the Imperial Reichspost: 28 November 1795”.
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