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PERSIA, TEHRAN - PHOTOGRAPHY Good album of photographs of Persia/Iran, including the British Legation (with Sir Percy Cox) in Tehran, festivities at the Nowruz Persian New Year, an Ashura Festival with devout Shia men self-flagellating and head-cutting (tatbir), views of a visit to petroglyphs, c.1919-1921 image 1
PERSIA, TEHRAN - PHOTOGRAPHY Good album of photographs of Persia/Iran, including the British Legation (with Sir Percy Cox) in Tehran, festivities at the Nowruz Persian New Year, an Ashura Festival with devout Shia men self-flagellating and head-cutting (tatbir), views of a visit to petroglyphs, c.1919-1921 image 2
PERSIA, TEHRAN - PHOTOGRAPHY Good album of photographs of Persia/Iran, including the British Legation (with Sir Percy Cox) in Tehran, festivities at the Nowruz Persian New Year, an Ashura Festival with devout Shia men self-flagellating and head-cutting (tatbir), views of a visit to petroglyphs, c.1919-1921 image 3
PERSIA, TEHRAN - PHOTOGRAPHY Good album of photographs of Persia/Iran, including the British Legation (with Sir Percy Cox) in Tehran, festivities at the Nowruz Persian New Year, an Ashura Festival with devout Shia men self-flagellating and head-cutting (tatbir), views of a visit to petroglyphs, c.1919-1921 image 4
PERSIA, TEHRAN - PHOTOGRAPHY Good album of photographs of Persia/Iran, including the British Legation (with Sir Percy Cox) in Tehran, festivities at the Nowruz Persian New Year, an Ashura Festival with devout Shia men self-flagellating and head-cutting (tatbir), views of a visit to petroglyphs, c.1919-1921 image 5
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PERSIA, TEHRAN - PHOTOGRAPHY
Good album of photographs of Persia/Iran, including the British Legation (with Sir Percy Cox) in Tehran, c.1919-1921

7 – 15 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £1,920 inc. premium

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PERSIA, TEHRAN - PHOTOGRAPHY

Good album of photographs of Persia/Iran, including the British Legation (with Sir Percy Cox) in Tehran, festivities at the Nowruz Persian New Year, an Ashura Festival with devout Shia men self-flagellating and head-cutting (tatbir), views of a visit to petroglyphs, upwards of 260 gelatin silver prints (typically 80 x 100mm., or similar, a few smaller), mounted on 27 stiff card leaves, some captions on mount, morocco album, oblong 4to (270 x 370mm.), c.1919-1921

Footnotes

A album, compiled by a British diplomat associated with the British Legation at Tehran at the time that Sir Percy Cox (formerly the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf from 1904 to 1919) was Acting British Agent in the city from 1919-1921. During this period he was negotiating the Anglo-Iranian Agreement to allow oil drilling rights for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.

The album includes images of staff and VIPS (including showing Cox) with captions also identifying Seyyid Zia, Sultan Ali, and Haji Ahmad amongst local dignitaries; building and grounds of the British Legation, and important events such as the Nowruz Persian New Year, the Ashura Festival (18, including Shia men self-flagellating and the tatbir). Also views taken during an big game hunting expedition to the Persian mountains, rock carvings at Cheshmeh-Alia (Rey), Isphahan, Afche, stone bridges, mosques, and local inhabitants (including Caravan trains, shepherds, etc.).

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