Bidspirit auction | Lot of 8 censored airmail

Lot of 8 censored airmail covers, seven from Iran and one from Egypt, 1942 to 1956. The seven Iranian covers were sent during the Second World War and carry Anglo Soviet Persian joint censorship handstamps, Iranian censor tapes inscribed in Persian and British censor tapes OPENED BY EXAMINER with the P.C. 90 marking. (1) Tehran to Campbeltown, Scotland, from W. M. Bruce of Tehran, franked with Shah definitives, postmark of 1942; (2) a further cover from the same sender to the same addressee, with British censor tape EXAMINER 8946 and a round Cyrillic handstamp of the Soviet Anglo Persian censorship; (3) Isfahan to Alexandria, Egypt, from S. Aaron of P.O. Box 3, Isfahan, franked with a strip of 50 Dinar stamps and Shah definitives; (4) Iran to Karachi, addressed to Bahman Ardeshir Haghiq of Bombay Bazar, with censor tape and the manuscript censor mark DHB/64; (5) Zahedan, Iran, from the Indian trader S. Avtar Singh Kohli of Zahedan, franked with a strip of five 50 Dinar stamps and the printed censor mark DH1/2; (6) Tehran to New York, addressed to Fisk Tire Export at Rockefeller Center, from Mihran Keuroglian of P.O. Box 101, Tehran; (7) registered cover from Abadan to THE SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY in Glasgow, from M. Qadak of the accounts department of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd.; (8) the Egyptian cover, airmail from Cairo to Brighton, England, postmark dated 24 October 1956, franked with a strip of four 10 mills Suez Canal Company nationalisation stamps and a further stamp, with an Egyptian censor tape in Arabic. Both sides of each cover photographed. Good condition, creases and age marks, exactly as photographed.