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Auction: 161 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 447

Iran reference collection/accumulation of several thousand mint and used in a large binder, starts with the 1876 issue and includes issues through the 1920s, the purpose of the collection was to distinguish the originals of the various issues from the numerous reprints and fakes that plague so many of the issues of this period, various notes are found throughout labeling the different categories of stamps and cancels, sometimes with notes on how to tell originals from reprints, many are sorted by different perforations and types of design, there are some unlisted items such as fifteen high values of the 1915 Ahmad Shah Coronation essays, four different of the regular values with gold borders and the official high values complete with silver borders, there is lots of useful material with most being fine-very fine though faults are present; Scott value is over $7,000.00 where only clearly genuine original stamps and overprints are counted and where used with postal used cancels are counted, reprints and c.t.o used are not counted even when they are priced that way in Scott, anything dubious or unknown which include many overprints are not counted though some may in fact be genuine, so obviously there is great amount of material not counted but useful for reference; also two envelopes of unsorted on pages and stock pages are included but not counted; a useful lot for the student of Iran and well worth examining.

Sold for
$1,350