1876 First Portrait 1sh. and 2sh. pair tied on small envelope, franked by BOUSHIR 30/1 cds, sent to Teheran, a scarce usage (Image)

THE EXTREMELY RARE MIXED FRANKING COVER WITH RUSSIA 1876 First Portrait 5ch. rose and black, postal stationery envelope, dated approximately on the 1st of January 1877, addressed from Tehran to Linz, Austria, cancelled by indistinct TEHRAN cds, used in combination with Russia Arms 8k applied in transit to pay the onward fee from Tabriz to Linz, as Persia was not the part of the UPU until September 1877, the addressee was a Post Office Official in Linz, the reverse shows a wide array of transit and arrival mkgs, an important item of Persia postal history, a showpiece (Image)

THE UNIQUE TWO SHAHI BISECT COVER 1876 First Portrait 2ch. green and black, two singles and a BISECT neatly tied on 5ch. stationery envelope, from Shiras to Isfahan, by SCHIRAS/2.5 (1879) cds in violet, paying the Ten Shahi rate, a superb showpiece, signed Sadri (Image)

1876 First Portrait 5ch. rose and black, single tied on 1880 cover from Khiaban via Teheran and Vienna to Linz, Austria by Khiaban boxed Arabic hs, paying the Five Shahi UPU foreign letter rate, fine and a scarce usage of this cancel (Image)

1876 First Portrait 5ch. rose and black, single tied on cover from Urmia to London, England, by URMIA/15.5 (1879) cds, paying the Five Shahi UPU foreign letter rate, very fine, signed Sadri (Image)

1876 First Portrait 5ch. rose and black and 10ch. blue and black, two singles tied on 1878 registered cover from Khiaban via Teheran to Berlin by Khiaban boxed Arabic hs and TEHERAN/27.3, paying the Fifteen Shahi UPU registered foreign letter rate, with bilingual boxed "RECOM" hs, fine and a scarce usage of this cancel, showpiece (Image)

1880 Parcel receipt/barnameh used in July 1880 franked with 3x1Kr and 4x5Kr of the 2nd Portrait issue to a total value of 23 Krans cancelled Schiraz 1/1(note error should be 1/7). A very rare barnameh with these high values (Image)

1879-80 5 Kran imperforate pair with background inverted, THE ONLY PAIR RECORDED, certificate, plus two 5 Kran perforated with background inverted, unused and used, both UNIQUE (Image)

1881 Recessed 1sh (5c) bright reddish violet & 1882 Retouched 5sh green and dark green, neatly tied by TEHERAN cds, on neat envelope to the USA, cvr tear and part flap torn away, attractive and scarce usage (Image)

1882 Cover with a delivery rate of 25sh franked 5sh and pair of 10sh, both from 1882 issue, sent from Teheran 17/10 to Tabriz arriving 28/10, a rare usage (Image)

1884-86 Bisected Provisionals plus "5" Shahi Provisionals attractive used selection showing both values, plus range of eight unused and used bisects, mixed to very fine (15)

1885-86 Typographed Issue group of 20 covers, mostly from Yezd, incl. seven 10ch single frankings, two 10ch+5ch, five 1Kr frankings, one 1Kr+5ch, one 1Kr+10ch, one 1Kr+10ch+5ch, two with two 1Kr and one with a stamp missing, mixed condition

1885-87 "OFFICIEL" Handstamp Issue: Two used 4-blocks, one with ERROR. 3 on 6sh-block, perf 12, has the upper right stamp with inverted surcharge. The 6 on 10sh-block, perf 12, cancelled Teheran. Upper right corner has a loose perf., cert. Sadri (Image)

1885-87 Official Handstamped Issue attractive mint and used selections neatly written up on four album pages, good deal of completion with array of different perforations, mixed to very fine (36) (Image)

1886 Registered cover, boxed RECOM handstamp, franked OFFICIEL 6 on 3sh and 18 on 10ch of the 1885-87 issue, sent from Teheran (date illegible) via Enzeli and Baku and finally two registration arriving marks of London and Oxford. Various manuscript notations on the front. Part of the perf on the 6 on 3sh stamp has been torn off but does not really affect the overall impression of this rare cover (Image)

1889 Typographed Definitives 5ch pair and 1kr tied to reverse of envelope by Ispahan cds with registered label adjacent, minor cover faults, fine (Image)

1894 Golden Nasseri 2Kr Brown Orange & Pale Blue on reverse of cover tied by Abbassi cds, front with registered label, fine (Image)

1894 Golden Nasseri 2kr Brown & Bright Blue pair on reverse of linen cover along with 5ch and 8ch tied by ABBASSI cds, looks to be missing a stamp, cover soiled with minor faults, a scarce usage of the 2kr (Image)

1896 Postal stationery envelope 5sh yellow, medium size, of 1896 uprated 17sh to equal the internal rate of 5 shahis and reg fee of 17sh. Cancelled at Teheran 14/4 sent to Switzerland, oval "R" mkg & manuscript "N.603" registered number alongside, very fine & attractive (Image)