David Feldman - Persia Monday, December 3, 2018, at 15:00 CET

139 Geneva, December 3, 2018 Lot N° Symbol(s) / Photo Page Persiphila Cat. N° Estimate ( € ) 20551 C H M L / www 1900’s Over 50 items of postal history virtually all from an early 20 th century correspondence, much from Teheran and Hamadan, as well as Batum, Greece, Eastern Austro-Hungarian, etc, all to the same addressee in London, with a diverse range of frankings including Chahis surcharges on stationery with additional stamp combinations, attractive frankings on the illustrated side of postcards, with almost everything here having different photographic scenes of Persia inc. performing strong-men, costumes, ruins, poppy cultivation, dervishes, holy men, etc. A wonderful range of highly evocative and attractive material from a pre-WWI travelling correspondence. 700 - 1’000 20552 CC C H J M L / www 1900-1916 An attractive old-time specialised collection of a fine array of different issues mounted on one hundred and seventy album pages, showing mint, used singles, pairs, multiples, officials, cancellations, varieties etc., plus a fine array of reprints and forgeries for comparison, with particular strength in the 1902-04 Portrait issue showing general issue, Service ovpts and other surcharged issues, mixed to very fine, a wonderful lot for study and expansion (100’s) 1’000 - 1’500 20553 C J M / www Attractive mixed accumulations of complete sheets, officials, revenues, mixed to very fine (100’s) 100 - 200 20554 CC C H J M L / www 1902 First typeset issue. Fascinating used collection with well over 400 items including a separate reference study. Particularinterest in the wide range of cancellations with 1ch (30), 2ch (22), 5ch (72), 10ch (38), 12ch (25), 1kr (36), 2kr (19) and 10kr (12). Then the reference including 1ch 1 st printing non-control panes of 12 x 2, 2kr and 50kr sheets of 24x 2 and a good range of coloured controls, etc. 300 - 500 20555 CC H DCE 1902-58, Group of 4 stamps, incl. 1902-03 Typeset 2ch double print (printer’s waste) and 12ch proof without yellow background (creased), 1911-21 3ch pair with “Paquebot” cancel, and 1958 World’s Fair 6R mint nh with background error of colour (yellow-orange instead of salmon), all cert. Sadri 100 - 200 20556 F / www 1902-1907, Four covers and an unused card inc. 1902 5c red and buff Type II with control opt. tied with one of two ‘HAMADAN’ c.d.s.’s, env. to Tehran reverse with two arrival c.d.s’s, 1906 3ch green and 10Ch brown on blue-tinted paper, tied with a fine lenticular ‘OURMIA/14-1-07’ h.s., env. to Meaung France, French transit c.d.s. 150 - 200 20557 CC C H J M L / www 1902-1906 Typeset Issues: An attractive old-time specialised collection of a fine array of different issues mounted on ninety album pages, showing mint, used singles, pairs, multiples, varieties, sheet reconstructions, covers etc., plus a fine array of reprints and forgeries for comparison, mixed to very fine, a wonderful lot for study and expansion (100’s) 1’000 - 1’500