Cf)t ^plmbor of 

 Ancient Center 



Who has not longed to see for himself the wonderful old 

 city — "The Queen of the Adriatic" — even as she is today? 

 How much more entertaining must she have been in the 

 days of her glory — graceful gondolas plying lazily about 

 the network of the placid waterways, earning romantic 

 swains to wait upon charming ladies in their gorgeous 

 palaces — walls, floors and balconies hung with the priceless 

 products of Oriental looms. 



Since the beginning of time the possession of Oriental Rugs has been 

 the Hall-mark of the highest and most luxurious periods of civiliza- 

 tion of every nation. The beauty of Oriental design and color is 

 undying, but no longer can the genuine antique be found save in 

 museums and private collections, and alas for the deterioration of 

 fabric and dye in the modern product and the lamentable lack of 

 any system of standardization of value. 



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the self-same Eastern wools and have 

 beauty and tradition of symbolic design 



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THE COUNTRY LIF] PR] 5S, GARDEN CITY, NEW VOliK 





