Lot 20551 – 1900’s Over 50 items of postal history virtually all
Lot 20551 – 1900’s Over 50 items of postal history virtually all
Lot 20551 – 1900’s Over 50 items of postal history virtually all
Persia » Collections, Lots etc.
Price realised
1’200 EUR
Estimate
700 – 1’000 EUR
Auction date
Mon 3 Dec 2018 at 16:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description
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. Auction
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