. Rome extraordinary prices have been reached in a sale of carpets .*t-tfae American Art Galleries m TSew \ork. the total of a three days' sale amounting to no less than £38,500. One carpet alone j fetched £4200. It was guaranteed to be of the time of the Shah Abbas, and I experts agreed that it was m a remark ,i,L state of preserration. Anothei antique Ispahan .court carpet reahsec C 3400, and Mrs John Jacob Astor pur chased an antique Samarkand silk ruj; of tho : eighteenth century ior*7s.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16567, 3 June 1914, Page 10
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88Untitled Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16567, 3 June 1914, Page 10
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