Height x Width: 16 3/4 × 21 1/4 in. (42.55 × 53.98 cm)
Type:
Archival Material
Date:
1637
Description:
The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis operated postal systems in western and central Europe for the better part of four centuries. Operations ranged from a monopoly under the auspices of the Holy Roman Empire during the 16th-18th centuries, to a private postal system in competition with government services in the 19th century.
Thurn & Taxis postal announcement by Emperor Ferdinand III.