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- ↑ "New signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists" by Jane Moubray in The London Philatelist , Vol. 123, No. 1414, April 2014, pp. 130-131.
- Sources
- "Verleger, Autor und Journalist Wolfgang Maassen" by Andreas Hahn in DAS ARCHIV, edition 1/2012, pp. 60–63
- "About Wolfgang Maassen" in The Philatelic Journalist (AIJP), No. 145, October 2014, p. 19
