1865 Riester Essay: Recumbent in black on white paper, with initial on bottom margin, unused, very fine and scarce, cert. Persiphila (Persiphila $1'000) (Image)

1865 Riester Essay: Recumbent Lion in gold on cream paper, unused, very fine and scarce, cert. Persiphila (Image)

1867 Barre Essays: An attractive unused group of part reconstructed sheets showing all for colours, and all four values and all four types, with singles, pairs and blocks, including violet design for the one shahi value, green design for the two shahi value, blue design for the four shahi value and orange design for the eight shahi value, generally very fine and all neatly mounted and written up on five exhibition pages (79) (Persiphila $5'925+) (Image)

1867 Barre Essays: Four shahis green, a complete mint strip of five, imperforate top, fresh, very fine and scarce, cert. Persiphila (Persiphila $375) (Image)

1867 Barre Essays: Four shahis lilac, a complete mint nh strip of five, imperforate top and bottom, fresh, very fine and scarce, cert. Persiphila (Persiphila $375) (Image)

1867 Barre Essays: Four shahis vermilion, a complete mint nh strip of five, perforated on all sides, fresh, very fine and scarce, cert. Persiphila (Persiphila $375) (Image)

1867 Barre Essays: Eight shahis lilac, a complete mint nh strip of five, imperforate top and bottom, fresh, very fine and scarce, cert. Persiphila (Persiphila $375) (Image)

Large Format Lion Label (type A) in gold on cream paper, perf.13 1/2, mint no gum, minor creasing, signed Sadri (Persiphila $500) (Image)

Large Format Lion Label (type B) in bronze on cream paper, perf. 11 1/2, unused, showing imperf margin at right, crease that breaks the paper, scarce, cert. Persiphila (Image)

Small Format Lions Label in green mint part original gum, some faults, signed Sadri (Image)

1868-70 One Shahi, unused selection of 15, showing all four type present, plus a fine array of shades and paper varieties, few minor faults, generally very fine, a scarce assembly (16) (Persiphila $5'200+), many signed various experts including Sadri, Heddergott, Dadkhah (Image)

1868-70 One shahi dark purple, type II, unused, fresh and very fine and scarce, signed Sadri (Persiphila $325) (Image)

1868-70 One shahi purple, type I, unused, fresh and very fine and scarce, signed Sadri (Persiphila $325) (Image)

1868-70 One shahi grey, type IV, unused, error of colour, very fine and an extremely rare error, cert. Sadri (Persiphila $20'000) (Image)

1868-70 One shahi lavender grey, type IV, unused, error of colour, very fine and an extremely rare shade (Persiphila $20'000), cert. Sadri (Image)

1868-70 Two shahis light green, type IV, unused, fresh and very fine and scarce, signed Sadri (Persiphila $275) (Image)

1868-70 Two shahis emerald green, type II, unused, fresh and very fine and scarce, signed Sadri (Persiphila $275) (Image)

1868-70 Four shahis blue, selection of sixteen unused singles, showing a fine array of shades and paper varieties, few minor faults, generally fresh and very fine, all neatly mounted and written up on an exhibition page, some signed Sadri, Heddergott or Dadkhah (16) (Persiphila $3'600+) (Image)

1868-70 Eight shahis reddish orange, selection of sixteen unused singles, showing a fine array of shades and paper varieties, few minor faults, generally fresh and very fine, all neatly mounted and written up on an exhibition page, some signed Sadri (16) (Persiphila $4'400+) (Image)

1868-70 Eight shahis orange, type I, unused, fresh and very fine and scarce, signed Sadri (Persiphila $275) (Image)

1868-70 Eight shahis vermilion, type II, thin paper, unused, fresh and very fine and scarce, signed Sadri (Persiphila $275) (Image)

1868-70 Eight shahis dark carmine, type I, unused, fresh and very fine and scarce, signed Sadri (Persiphila $275) (Image)

1868-70 Eight shahis reddish orange, selection of eighteen unused singles, showing a fine array of shades and paper varieties with medium and thick papers, including four reconstructed sheetlet of four, some minor faults, generally fresh and very fine, all neatly mounted and written up on exhibition page (18) (Persiphila $5'950) (Image)

1868-70 One shahi to eight shahis, complete set of eight unused or used examples of each value showing different types, plus a fine array of shades present, fine & a scarce set (32) (Persiphila $8'800) (Image)

1868-70 One shahi to eight shahis, complete set of four unused example of each value showing all four types, some shades present, fine & a scarce set (16) (Persiphila $4'400) (Image)