David Feldman Persia Including the Khosrow “Joe” Youssefi Collection (Part I) Tuesday, December 10, 2019

17 Geneva, December 10, 2019 Lot N° Symbol(s) / Photo Page Cat. N° Estimate ( € ) 20008 20007 20007 F 1846 (4.11) Folded entire from Reverend Justin Perkins in Oroomiah (Orumiah) mission addressed to Reverend Thomas Edward Vermilye in New York City, via Boston with red transit ds “BOSTON” of March 22 and straight line “SHIP” and “7” alongside, very fine, attractive and rare missionary letter, cert. Persiphila (2011) Note: Reverend Justin Perkins wrote that the Bishop of Oroomriah’s brother (Joseph son of George of Gavalan) was a practicing physician and was engaged among the multitudes suffering from cholera in Oroomiah: an interesting letter ending “with all its solitude and trials, however, missionary life has also its peculiar joys” Provenance: Samad Khorshid 400 - 700 20008 F 1864 (26.4) Disinfected folded cover from Tauris to Reims, France, with disinfection slits, routes via Trebizonde, showing “H.ARNAUD/TREBIZONDE” forwarding agents cachet, with boxed “MER NOIRE” hs, sent on the Black Sea via Constantinople with French Post Office transit on reverse, very fine and scarce 200 - 300 20009 F / 18 1867 Native stampless cover mostly likley from Bushire to Bombay, rated “2 anna” manuscript, with small Bombay thimble arrival bs, fine and scarce 200 - 300 20010 F 1875 (30.10) Envelope with original contents written in “Tauris le 30 octobre 1875”, transported via Trebizonde and forwarded from Constantinople with boxed “MER NOIRE” (applied in Constantinople to letters from Black Sea harbours, transported with French paquebots without postal agency abroad), franked with France Ceres 80c tied GC5083 wuth cds alongside and boxed “PD” and red “PAQUEBOTS DE LA MEDITERRANEE” to France with further French transit and arrival bs, a rare and attractive early letter from Persia 1’000 - 1’500