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SPACE - IRAN] An interesting archive of photographs and signed items commemorating the Apollo-Suyuz mission, Skylab I, II & III, and the 1976 Tehran F.A.I. Conference. [Various places: 1972-1978]. The archive comprising: One personally assembled spiral bound album commemorating the F.A.I. conferences from 1972-78, with a special focus on Tehran 1976 (the others Paris, Dublin, Sydney, Ottawa, Baden, Rome, and Santiago). The Tehran section including inscriptions to Reno Chalian from each Apollo-Soyuz astronaut including Thomas Stafford, Deke Slayton, Vance Brand as well as the Russians (these with small ink drawings) including Kubasov, Klimluk, Sevastyanov, and Leonov, also present here are several signed photographs of Slayton and Brand, this spiral bound album also containing dozens of color and black and white photographs of the conferences, the album 14 x 10 1/2 inches (36 x 27 cm); Three color photographs inscribed on the mount, including one signed by all five members of the Apollo-Soyuz crew; one signed by the American Apollo-Soyuz astronauts; one showing Skylab II inscribed by Alan Bean; and one other showing Tehran from Skylab III; these each 11 x 14 inches (28 x 36 cm); a group of about 20 NASA issued color reproductions of photographs of the Skylab mission and Apollo-Soyuz (a few with signatures including Stafford and Brand); an Apollo-Soyuz mission patch and some other printed NASA and F.A.I. ephemera. Some minor handling wear but very well preserved overall. Provenance: Reno Ivani Chalian, a founder of the Imperial Aero Club of Iran and Iranian delegate to the F.A.I. conferences; thence by descent. The interesting archive of Reno Ivani Chalian, an Iranian delegate to the Federation Aeronautique Internationale conferences in the mid-1970s. This was a ripe period for the F.A.I. (established 1905) and the contents of this archive celebrate the three Skylab missions as well as the diplomatic accomplishments of the Apollo-Soyuz mission, the first joint space flight between the United States and the Soviet Union. This archive contains several personalized inscriptions to Chalian from those astronauts, including a drawing of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts coming together by the Russian cosmonaut P. I. Klimuk. An archive such as this is certainly uncommon in the United States after the 1979 cultural revolution. C