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The Annual General Meeting of the International
Lawn Tennis Federation was set to open in Tehran on Wednesday, July 10th,
1968. To commemorate the occasion, a set of two stamps was prepared. Due
to some problems, the meeting did not take place. The reason for canceling
the meeting might well have been the dismay of the Iranian government for
the rejection of the Asian Lawn Tennis Federation for affiliation with
the ILTF in their meeting of April 19, 1968. After the postponement of
this meeting, the stamps sent to the post offices were ordered to be withdrawn
and returned to the central post office for destruction. A small number
of these stamps, reportedly 26 sets were sold at some provincial post offices,
such as Khorramshahr prior to their date of issue. The original quantity
printed was 300,000 sets, which all but few sets were burned. This set
is considered to be one of the modern rarities of the world.
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