U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
December 19-20, 2017

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #854
IRAN
1876 1k rose, original gum (h.r.), nice color, faint thin (not mentioned on accompanying certificate), otherwise v.f., with clear 2006 Persiphila certificate,
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Catalog #19
Catalog Value $1,500
Unsold
Lot #855
IRAN
1876 1k rose, Laid Paper, Zendjan postmark, fine, with Sadri opinion,
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Catalog #19b
Catalog Value $1,200
Unsold
Lot #856
IRAN
1876 4k yellow orange, ochre, orange, etc., four different colors and types (Persiphila 17A, D, G, H), used, margins all around, minor flaws possible, each with Sadri certificate,
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Catalog #20
Catalog Value $1,200
Unsold
Lot #857
IRAN
1876 4kr yellow, block of four, Types DB/AC, setting 6, cancelled "Zendjan 22/6" (inverted "22"), margins all around, good color, small thin at upper left, otherwise v.f., with 1990 Holcombe and 2016 Sadri certificates (Persiphila 17 S6, $5,500)
Box
Catalog #20
Unsold
Lot #858
IRAN
1878 5k violet, margins all around, unused, fresh and v.f., with Sadri opinion,
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Catalog #36
Catalog Value $1,500
Unsold
Lot #859
IRAN
1898 3kr-50kr top five values, blocks of four, n.h., post office fresh, fine-v.f., signed Sadri. A rare group of multiples (catalogued as hinged singles)
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Catalog #115-19
Catalog Value $520
Unsold
Lot #860
IRAN
1899 Overprints, complete set of 16, l.h. or h.r., fine-v.f., signed Sadri,
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Catalog #120-135
Catalog Value $556
Price Realized
$450.00

Lot #861
IRAN
1902 1c-50k, set of ten mounted on Persiphila album pages, top value sheet margin single, n.h., signed Sadri, with his 2016 Persiphila certificate (catalogued as hinged)
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Catalog #247-257
Catalog Value $2,035
Price Realized
$1,000.00

Lot #862
IRAN
1902 1c-50k, set of ten, postally used (few on piece), fine-v.f., with 2017 Persiphila certificate,
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Catalog #247-257
Catalog Value $863
Price Realized
$625.00

Lot #863
IRAN
1902 Mozafar-eddin Shah Qajar, complete set, top value heavy h.r., others mostly l.h, fine-v.f.,
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Catalog #351-63
Catalog Value $810
Price Realized
$325.00

Lot #864
IRAN
1915 2ch surcharge on 5ch brown & carmine (Ahmad Shah), block of four, n.h., v.f., signed Sadri. A rare multiple (catalogued as singles)
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Catalog #538
Catalog Value $1,200
Unsold
Lot #865
IRAN
1915 Coronation of Shah Ahmed, 1ch-12ch, also 24ch, printed on both sides, one with centers inverted, nine different sheets of 50 (450 stamps), fine-v.f. and impressive group, offered here as unauthorized reprints
Box (*)
Catalog #560/570var
Unsold
Lot #866
IRAN
1915 Coronation of Shah Ahmed, 1ch carmine & indigo, printed on both sides, one inverted, sheet of 50, imperf. vertically, with Holcombe notation at bottom right "possibly original." (unauthorized reprints exist of all such varieties and this lot is offered as is)
Box (*)
Catalog #560var
Price Realized
$1,500.00

Lot #867
IRAN
1923 unissued "Omar Khayam 1123 - 1923" bilingual overprints, 1c-30k complete set of 14, mostly l.h. (few n.h.), fine-v.f. (to commemorate the 800th birth anniversary of Hakim Omar Khayyam, Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet, a set of stamps was prepared, but never issued. Most of these stamps were subsequently destroyed)
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Price Realized
$3,500.00

Lot #868
IRAN
1926 Regne de Pahlavi, 1ch orange & maroon, overprint inverted, h.r., fresh and fine stamp, signed Sadri, with 2007 Persiphila certificate,
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Catalog #707a
Catalog Value $2,000
Unsold
Lot #869
IRAN
1935 Postes Iraniennes overprints, complete set in blocks of four, n.h., usual gum, fine-v.f., with 2010 Persiphila certificate (catalogue value for hinged)
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Catalog #818-822
Catalog Value $6,788
Unsold
Lot #870
IRAN
1968 International Tennis Congress, 8r and 14r set of two, n.h., v.f. (The International Tennis Congress scheduled to take place in Teheran was canceled, the prepared stamps were destroyed. Less than 50 of each are reported to have survived (see note in Scott's following No.1479)
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Unsold

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