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Marriage contract of Mah Taban and Mirza Ismaʻil, 1888
Marriage contract of Mah Taban, daughter of Mirza Aqa Mustawfi, and Mirza Ismaʻil the accountant, son of Muʻtamad al-Sultan Mirza Ahmad Mustawfi. The mahr includes four hundred tumans in cash, a Qur'an worth thirty tumans, one male slave and one female slave worth seventy tumans, one-sixth of a residential building and a property in Tafrish, and a qanat and a creek in Tasuj. The first three items remain the groom's debt. The groom's father transferred the ownership of the qanat and the creek to the bride.
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Marriage contract of Maryam Baygum and Mirza ‘Abbas, 1909 or 1910
Marriage contract of Maryam Baygum known as Ihtiram al-Sadat, daughter of Sayyid Ahmad, and Mirza ‘Abbas, son of Mirza Mahmud. The mahr includes three hundred and sixty tumans, ten tumans of which is for a Qur’an, and one of seven shares of the groom's house located at the Darb-i Khanqah neighborhood in the Sangilaj region of Tehran.