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Thurn And Taxis - A Board Game

 
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Posted 04/07/2017   8:20 pm  Show Profile Check Stamps1962's eBay Listings Bookmark this topic Add Stamps1962 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I was browsing ebay this evening looking for Thurn and Taxis covers to complement my collection of that old German state and ran across a board game based on their postal system:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Thurn-and-T...112360595132

I had no idea anything like this existed. Back in the day I used to play board war games but had never seen this. It looks like the players compete to build postal systems.Has anyone ever played this?

If this needs to go on another forum lease move it, this one seemed better fit.
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Posted 04/07/2017   10:15 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
https://goscf.com/t/10000#88831

Screen capture from 2006

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Edited by rod222 - 04/07/2017 10:19 pm
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Posted 04/07/2017   11:25 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Greaden to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Collecting TnT postmarks certainly feels like a board game as much as an exploration into a forgotten bit of history.
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Posted 04/07/2017   11:30 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Jkjblue to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

From Big Blue blog's post on Turn and Taxis...

http://bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.co...d-taxis.html

"And there is a 2006 adventure board game- Turn and Taxis- whose object is to string together a lucrative postal network by taking ownership of mailboxes in cities along the way."
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Classical era collecting with the Blues
http://bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.com/
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Posted 04/08/2017   08:28 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add stampcrow to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
The Thurn and Taxis Princely House (Tassis) has had a long history of providing mail and newspaper courier distribution services- originally since 1290 for Italian city-states, and then spreading by the 16th century to a postal route network encompassing Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Spain, and the Low countries (now Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg). They were named the Imperial Postmasters General for the Holy Roman Empire in 1748.

Very early entrepreneurs.
A board game would be great.
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Posted 04/14/2017   06:54 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

GSM October 2007

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Posted 04/14/2017   09:16 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add littleriverphil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Seems like it would be easy to get a game going with the folks on this board.
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