Today in Postal History

  
     
Persia to France
April 8, 1929

This first flight cover was sent from Teheran on the first flight to Bagdad.
Its destination was Paris.

The cover is franked with 1928-29 airmail stamps.
The 5c olive brown and the 10c dark green were overprints of revenue stamps.
The overprint included an airmail designator in Arabic, an airplane,
Poste arienne, and a denomination in black (Scptt C25 amd C26).
There is also a 1927 1k dull blue Riza Shah Pahlavi (Scott 733).

The sender requested airmail service and the cover was handstamped with a first flight cachet.