Recently at a local junk store we purchased a very ornate
Tea Pot and Platter. On the bottom of the platter, hand-written in baked on
paint, it says, "Hand Crafted. Iran . 24 Karat Gold. JP." It
has a picture on both items that after looking at Google images, I believe to
be Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, (16 July 1831 – 1 May 1896) the King of Iran. There
were two candle holders that matched, but another woman was buying them. (Sorry
the pictures are a bit blurry, my camera doesn't take good close-ups) Here is
the Wiki info on him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naser_al-Din_Shah_Qajar
There was a blue coffee set we didn't get at the time. When
we came back from a ten-day vacation, we stopped at the store and it was still
there, so we got it also. It has a small coffee pot, a candle-warmer pot for
underneath, (there may have been a saucer that it rested on), and six small
cups and saucers. Also with intricate in-laid gold. On the bottom of the pot
are two Persian characters and "In Iran. 862" Below that is Persian
writing which I can't make out, my Persian being rusty.
My guess is that some ranking Iranian fled the Islamist
revolution in 1979 and brought the mementoes with him, that the refugee is now
with Allah, and the survivors didn't want the old stuff. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi. I have no idea of the value, but would
guess it is more than we paid.
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