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Auction: 13031 - The Collector's Series sale
Lot: 1787

Iran
The valuable, mostly mint collection housed in two stockbooks, two albums and loose contained in a carton, many hundreds, including 1876 1(sh.) to 5(kr.), 1889 1ch. to 5kr., 1891 1ch. to 5kr., 1894 1ch. to 50kr., 1897 1ch. to 50kr., 1898 handstamped control marks 1ch. to 50kr., 1903 Saatdjian, 1908-09 13ch. to 50kr., 1909 1ch. to 30kr., 1910 prepared for use but not issued Saatdjian Postage and Official 1ch. to 30kr. (Persiphila C21-52), Tehran Local 2c. (Persiphila C53-571911-13 1ch. to 30kr., 1912 Official 1ch. to 30kr., 1915 prepared for use but not issued Kings and Historical Buildings Postage and Official 1ch. to 50kr. (Persiphila C91-129), 1915 Coronation Parcel Post and Official 1ch. to 5to., 1915 handstamped "1333" 1ch. to 1k., 1916 handstamped "1334" 1k. to 30k., 1919 2kr. on 5ch. to 50kr. on 14ch., 1924-25 1ch. to 30kr. blocks of four, 1926-29 1ch. to 2kr., 1928 Air surcharges on Fiscal set of five, 1929 1ch. to 3to., 1931-32 1ch. to 1kr., 1933-34 new currency 5d. to 5r., 1935 5d. to 5r., 1936-37 5d. to 10r., 1938 Shah´s Birthday 5d. to 10r. set of perforated sheets of 4, 1938-39 5d. to 10r., 1950 Economic Conference 1r. 50 + 1r. scarce block of four, 1942-45 20r. violet and brown, 30r. emerald green and black, 1953 Air 50d. to 200r., 1954 Fish, 1956-57 5d. to 200r., 1966-69 5d. to 200r., 1968 prepared for use but not issued Tennis 8r., 14r., 1973 Football 14r. error black and red omitted, Revenues with mint blocks, Charity labels, some first day covers and an album containing issues by various countries celebrating the 2,500th. anniversary of the Persian Empire, etc., many unmounted mint, chiefly fine and a marvellous opportunity to obtain the basis for a specialised collection. Photo for a selection

Sold for
£17,500