diff --git a/PIL/IcoImagePlugin.py b/PIL/IcoImagePlugin.py
index 82d33e383..268e93d6c 100644
--- a/PIL/IcoImagePlugin.py
+++ b/PIL/IcoImagePlugin.py
@@ -222,6 +222,10 @@ class IcoImageFile(ImageFile.ImageFile):
         self.mode = im.mode
         self.size = im.size
 
+
+    def load_seek(self):
+        # Flage the ImageFile.Parser so that it just does all the decode at the end.
+        pass
 #
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/Tests/images/python.ico b/Tests/images/python.ico
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c9efc5844
Binary files /dev/null and b/Tests/images/python.ico differ
diff --git a/Tests/test_imagefile.py b/Tests/test_imagefile.py
index d602935e7..12061eb0e 100644
--- a/Tests/test_imagefile.py
+++ b/Tests/test_imagefile.py
@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ def test_parser():
     # https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow/issues/78
     #assert_exception(IOError, lambda: roundtrip("PDF"))
 
+def test_ico():
+    with open('Tests/images/python.ico', 'rb') as f:
+        data = f.read()
+    p = ImageFile.Parser()
+    p.feed(data)
+    assert_equal((48,48), p.image.size)
+
 def test_safeblock():
 
     im1 = lena()