U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
November 18-19, 2009
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #4125 IRAN 1879 5k blue and black, center inverted, imperf., used, minor creases, otherwise fine, very rare, signed Diena, O Catalog #42c Catalog Value $1,350 | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #4126 IRAN 1889 (22 Feb) cover from Meched to Tabriz, franked on back with 1ch pale rose, 2ch pale blue and 10c black, tied by a single Meched 22/2 departure pmk, paying 13ch (including 5ch internal and 8ch letter rate from Russia to Iran), sent via Russian Territory, with 7k paid in Dzulfa with 2k and 5k, both tied by 9 Feb cds (note difference of 13 days between Julian and Gregorian calendars), cover little reduced and roughly opened at right, fine and extraordinary five-color, mixed Persia/Russia combination franking, with 2005 Persiphila certificate  | Price Realized $14,500.00 |
 | Lot #4127 IRAN 1899 cover from Schimera to England, franked with 12c carmine, re-addressed on arrival in Bedford and sent to France, cover faults, rare | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #4128 IRAN 1906 cover franked on reverse with two different adhesives including 1ch "Provisoire", sent to Constantinople, with Austrian Post arrival pmk, filing creases, otherwise fine | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #4129 IRAN 1909-12 selection of 12 covers, including Mohammad Ali Shah Zaragh to Tehran "opened and sealed in Tehran", various "C" control marks, usages from Tehran, Hamadan, Sultanabad and Kermanshah, mixed condition | Price Realized $280.00 |
 | Lot #4130 IRAN 1910-12 four covers, including "Momayezi Shodeh" censor, from Tauris to Teheran (this censor marking was applied in Azerbaijan when the assassination plot of Ayatollah Behbahani was planned by the Tabriz Central Committee), also Kazvin registered, Azerbaijan and Teheran blue and violet, Tabriz and Chiraz pmks, fine and scarce lot Catalog #AM1,KM3,TM1,TM2 | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #4131 IRAN 1910-1918 group of 57 covers with various censor marks including "Dunster Force" (20), "Norperforce" (4), British "Passed by Censor" octagonal and circular (6), "government military censor" (13) and "Opened by Censor" (3) on large labels, used in various cities, mostly fine. A nice group, excellent for research | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #4132 IRAN 1911 (25.11) cover franked with 6ch on back, used from Meched to Teheran, with "Meched Momayezi Shod" censor in violet (used when Mohammad Ali Shah returned from Russia and his supporters started movements in the states of Khorassan and Gilan) Catalog #MM2 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4133 IRAN 1912 (14.4) registered cover from Senneh to Hamadan, rejected (covers mailed to Hamadan were rejected and sent back to Sanandaj with a handwritten message in purple ink reading "according to the telegraph order of the chief officer of the central post office, this cover is being returned, due to the overprint of Mohammad Ali Shah's name on it") and returned, franked on back with a horizontal pair of 3ch with double "Al Sultan Mohammad Ali Shah Ghajar" overprint, plus and extra "Al", violet "C", boxed censor on front, roughly opened at right, very rare | Unsold |
 | Lot #4134 IRAN 1913 Az Sari Rebellion censor, selection of stamps on pieces (6) with both varieties of censor seal "Hedayatollah Hosaini" (made by Ayatollah Haueri who had control of the Sari post office). Only a few complete covers exist Catalog #AC1/AC3 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4135 IRAN 1915 selection of seven covers with various "Passed Censor Bushire" including circular handstamps in violet, black and purple, also with additional British censor and "opened by censor" labels, nice study group of Bushire censors | Unsold |
 | Lot #4136 IRAN 1915 cover headed "Vice Consulat de Turquie", bearing the negative purple "Investigated in Abadeh" censor handstamp on front, with 6ch "1333" franking on back, used from Shiraz to Isfahan, with appropriate departure and arrival markings, only a handful of covers have been recorded with this censor mark, Catalog #AB1 Catalog Value $7,500 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4137 IRAN 1915 selection of seven covers, all franked with Ahmad Shah adhesives, one with provisionally overprinted 1ch (3) and 8ch; five with negative, oval shaped violet "Mellat-e-Kazerun" censor handstamps, also with "Bushire passed censor" circular hs, another with additional "passed censor" in olive color, two covers with rectangular "Isfahan" censor, one in light blue from Tauris to Isfahan, other from Shiraz, with a sealing label Catalog #MK1,BC2,IC1 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4138 IRAN 1915 two covers with Kazerun censor during Mellat-e-Kazerun rebellion (the British consulate and the Imperial Bank of Persia in Shiraz were raided by German agitator "Wassmuss" and "Tangistani" tribes. After the raid on November 10, 1915, the British consul and the bank president were taken to Borazjon. The rebels demanded that all German prisoners in Persia be released and British forces depart from Bushire. This action set off the Kazerun rebellion in the Fall of 1916) one with inverted "Melat-e-Kazerun" overprint on 6ch stamp, other with 3x1ch adhesives, censor overprinted partially on cover, minor cover flaws, rare Catalog #MK1 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4139 IRAN 1915-16 group of four Ahmad Shah postal stationery cards from Enzeli, Tehran and Ghazvin to Romania, Switzerland, Russia and Netherlands, all with boxed Russian military censor hs, one with "Baku D.C. No.40" and others, fine | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #4140 IRAN 1915-17 selection of 17 covers from Hamadan to various cities, franked with different Ahmad Shah overprints, all with handstamped "Observed by Military" in Russian and Farsi, fine lot Catalog #KD3 | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #4141 IRAN 1915-17 three covers, each with a boxed bilingual Russian censor "Observed by Military" handstamp, all incoming mail to Hamadan or Sultanabad, from Tauris, Kashan and Recht, fine and scarce lot | Unsold |
 | Lot #4142 IRAN 1916 (14.12) Turkish invasion of Kurdistan (Turkish forces invaded the state of Kurdistan occupying Hamadan, Malayer and Sanandaj on August 10th), cover (repaired and restored) franked with 2x3ch, tied by Hamadan departure pmk, with both round and elongated Ottoman "Sansur Idlmishter", plus "Hamadan's Central Command 1322" censor handstamps in deep blue, fine appearance and rare, Catalog #TK1 Catalog Value $6,500 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4143 IRAN 1917 (31.1) Turkish invasion of Kurdistan, cover franked with 9ch, used from Cherveh to Hamadan, violet Ottoman rectangular "Idlmishter" censor, also small round violet negative Persian hs on back, cover opened at right, with Senneh transit, very rare Catalog #TK7 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4144 IRAN 1917 cover from Kermanshah, franked on back with 1914 surcharges (4x13ch, one additional stamp missing from cover), sent to Qum, with boxed Ottoman "Sansur Idlmishter" plus negative Persian round Lion censor handstamps on front, fine and rare combination of censor markings, only two others are stated to exist (only a postcard is listed and priced at $15,000) Catalog #TK10 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4145 IRAN 1917 two covers with Kurdistan military censor markings, one from Senneh to Hamadan, the other from Teheran to Senneh, each with boxed Ottoman "Idlmishter" (observed by military censor of Kurdistan) hs, also sealing straps on one, fine Catalog #KD6 Catalog Value $9,000 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4146 IRAN 1917 picture postcard (Persian refugees at Turkish delegation in Teheran) sent from Meshed to Java, Netherlands Indies, with oval "Passed Censor Quetta" hs, unusual destination, with arrival pmk | Unsold |
 | Lot #4147 IRAN 1918 Mirza Kuchik Khan's imperforate charity stamp issued in Recht, used in combination with 6ch franking on cover from Recht to Chahroud, roughly opened, otherwise fine | Price Realized $1,600.00 |
 | Lot #4148 IRAN 1918 cover franked on back with 1ch and 5ch, with black Ottoman military censor hs in black applied on front, sent from Tauris to Teheran without the usual British censor, but with remnants of some labels, fine, very rare, Catalog #AO1 Catalog Value $6,500 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4149 IRAN 1918 cover franked on back with 6ch, mailed from Tauris, via Teheran to Isfahan, with Ottoman military censor applied on front, also "Dunster Force" (major general Dunsterville, the head of the British military forces in Iraq, positioned his forces in the west, northwest and north of Persia in order to secure the British Empire interests in the Baku Oil wells) handstamp, but without the usual British censor cachet, rare Catalog #AO3 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4150 IRAN 1918 (14.11) cover franked on back with 6ch, tied by Zendjan cds, with Teheran arrival pmks, good strike of the black negative, round 28mm "Passed by censor Zendjan" censor on part of the sealing strap, rare Catalog #ZC1 Catalog Value $8,700 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4151 IRAN 1918 three covers, each with boxed "Passed by Censor Norper Force" censor in violet and black, applied by general Thompson's North Persian force, used from Recht to Isfahan, one registered cover from Roudsar to Ghazvin, fine Catalog #NF1-2 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4152 IRAN 1918 three covers, two with "Norperforce" censor in violet and black, the other with black negative oval censor and sealing strip of Kazvin, sent from Tauris to Sultanabad Aragh, Catalog #NF1-2,KN1 Catalog Value $1,200 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4153 IRAN 1918 selection of 18 covers, mostly with Dunster Force round black censor markings, used from Kazvin to Teheran and Isfahan, also incoming to Kazvin, franked with 3ch and 6ch in combination with a Charity stamp, some with sealing straps, one unusual usage from abroad, incoming mail from Paris to Tauris via Kazvin, etc., fine lot Catalog #DF2,3 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4154 IRAN 1918 cover with I.E.F. franking tied by F.P.O. pmks, sent via Basra and Bender Abbas to Kerman, with British military censor seal "Opened under martial Law", also red "passed censor D", fine | Unsold |
 | Lot #4155 IRAN 1921 cover with "Coup D'état" (General Reza Khan head of the Army commander), mixed franking with 3ch and 1kr, with 1ch regular Ahmad shah stamp, used from Teheran to Meshed, cover filing folds, otherwise fine, scarce | Price Realized $1,500.00 |
 | Lot #4156 IRAN 1921 cover (with letter) franked on back with 10ch adhesive, with boxed Meshed military censor hs ("censored on behalf of military governing forces"), also another seal on front, sent to Teheran, with arrival pmk, roughly opened at left, otherwise fine, Catalog #MC1 Catalog Value $3,200 | Unsold |
 | Lot #4157 IRAN 1921 cover franked with "Coup D'état" (General Reza Khan head of the Army commander) overprints, registered from Tehran to Meshed with 5ch, 6ch, 10ch and 12ch overprints (one stamp missing), cover faults, rare | Price Realized $950.00 |
 | Lot #4158 IRAN 1924 cover franked with single 6ch, used from Khomein to Isfahan (12.6), with boxed rectangular negative censor hs (Khomein censored by the military), only a handful of these censor markings have been recorded, Catalog #KE1 Catalog Value $6,500 | Price Realized $1,600.00 |
 | Lot #4159 IRAN 1945 "Democratic party of Azerbaijan" overprints on government stamps, issued by a rebellious group in Tabriz, due to Soviet army presence in the region, flown cover from Tabriz to New York, franked with 2r, pair of 5r and 50d, sent via Baghdad, cover torn at top, exceptionally scarce usage of high values on foreign mail | Unsold |
