"OLD-TIME" MIDDLE EAST COLLECTION. lovely collection on home-made pages; starts with Afghanistan sparse until 1940, then almost complete mint until 1956 noting extensive perfs and imperfs semis from 1957/59, C7-12 mint, O1-7 mint and almost complete mint postal tax; some 1922/25 Saudi Arabia-Hejaz;Iraq mint and used collection from 1923/66 and includes air mails and officials; followed by a starter group of 1926/66 Saudi Arabia-Nejd collection, mint 1926/66 Yemen collection with some air mails; finally the core of the collection - 1870s/1960s Iran with some issues from 1876 to 1878, but then it is almost complete from 1879 to 1966 missing only a handful of stamps and it includes semi-+s, air mails and officials and numerous complete sets, as it is usually the case with Iran, there are some doubtful issues and reprints but this collection includes a lot of genuine stamps incl complete 1909 printed matter postal tax issue, usual mixed condition but generally F-VF (see online scans)

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