Page 15 - Russo-Persian Postal Relations

l.A.2 .a Julfa the 1st Exchange PO Persia Opens Up
Registered single rate letter to Russia in 1880

Bairn postmark
25mm
About 1880
Three recorded

Rate: 5 chahi. Registration fee: 10 chahi Registration mark at back
Route: Teheran 3 Feb 1880 (m/s H = 1297) to Baku a rriving 20 Feb (Julian)

Registered single rate three-colored franked letter to USA 1880
A rectangular Khiaban (Te he ran). Only three three-colou red items recorded of the 2nd portrait issue

Route: Teheran, "Khiaban", 8 Aug 1880, Tabriz, J u lfa E PO, Berlin, New York 15 Sep.
to Boston, USA arriving 16 Sept. M/ s Berlin
Rate: 5 chah i. Registration fee: 10 chahi.
German registration label applied at Berlin. In New York a
violet three-lin~ reg ma rk on reverse plus a Boston circled mark

Postal rates. Letters. Domestic & abroad via Russ ia (in red). Via India different rates
LETTERS
1875 8 .6. 1878 1884 1891 14.5. 1905 21. 10. 1913
~:,b 1::4 IJi~~e le: :4 1 intl89: t. COMMENTS
Weie:ht class int. ext. int. ext. int. ext. !nt. ex:t. int. ext. int. ext.
I Weight could differ
Norma I 5 8k+ 5 5 5 6 5 5 8 5 5 12 6 13 6 12 !Member of u PU 1877
rate 5 " ' I I I !O I 18k • 8 kooek
Norma II 10 10 JO 10 12 10 14 24 9 26 9 24
rate l o I 16 I 10 I 20 J 10