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7e Glorious Show and Sale of Oriental Rugs Is a
Sight for All the City
"If Abraham Lincoln Were
Here, What Do You
Think He Would Do?"
Often these days, when a little group of men
are in a corner, or around a table, some one says:
"If Abraham Lincoln were here, what do you
think he would do?"
Most assuredly, George Washington,
Benjamin Franklin, Madison, Robert Morris,
Hamilton and Gouverneur Morris were fre
quently in conference to settle the various points
of the Constitution of the United States.
No other document, so far as we believe, has
ever been so complete, effective and held in high
honor as the Constitution of the United States.
It might be considered a child of the
Declaration of Independence, the first document
of the Thirteen Colonies, which was so wonder
fully inspired that it has never been amended;
that it stands with every i dotted and every t
crossed, exactly as it was written.
It is said that William Ewart Gladstone, the
greatest of Great Britain's statesmen in "the last
century, declared that the Constitution was
Y pHE delight of all beholders the opportunity of all purchasers!
As a display, it is so impressive as to be startling. If it were an exhibi
tion set up in Madison Square, New York, people would pay to see it.
Being set up here, all are free and welcome to view it, whilst even when
they would purchase, they find prices not very expensive.
As a sale, it constitutes an important merchandising event because of the
general scarcity and ascending prices of genuine Oriental rugs.
It has taken from six to eight months' work and waiting for us to assemble
and prepare for you this new, large and beautiful display of rugs.
"the greatest work ever struck off at any
one time by the mind and purpose of man."
In Sydney George Fisher's book, "The True
Benjamin Franklin," it is related:
"While the last members were signing. Dr.
Franklin, looking toward the President's chair,
at the back of which a rising sun happened to
to be painted, observed to a few members near
him that painters had found it difficult to
distinguish in their art a rising from a setting
sun. (
" 'I have,' said he, 'often and often, in the
course of a session and the vicissitudes of my
hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that
behind the President without being able to tell
whether it was rising or setting; but now. at
length, I have the happiness to know that it is
a rising and not a setting sun.' "
One hundred and ten millions of people in
the United States would, if it were possible for
them to come together, acclaim their approval
today of that old Constitution, whose 132d
birthday we celebrate in Philadelphia, in the city
where it was born.
Signed
Spt. 17, 1919.
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"The Wealth of Ormuzd
and the Ind"
To look at them then is to think of rugs
such as dazzled the conquering- Alexander,
when, after his overthrow of Darius the Great,
he visited the gorgeously dight tents of his
vanquished Persian adversary:
Such rugs as Cleopatra made cunning use
of, as fitting background for her glorious Greek
beauty, when, according to legend, she
smuggled herself, wrapped in a bale of rich
carpets, into the presence of Marc Antony,
after his victory at Actium over her armies:
Such rugs as haughty Oriental potentates,
ready to set ruthless heel on the neck of the
world, passed over softly and reverentially,
with slippers doffed:
Such rugs as glorify the interiors of the
rough skin tents of wild chieftains of the Cen
tral Asian desert, and constitute their sole
treasure:
Such rugs as rich men of the East invest
their wealth in, even today, as an Occidental
invests his money in stocks and bonds.
Lavishly overspreading the floors, draping
with magnificence the walls of the spacious
Oriental Rug Room and the great avenue pro
ceeding from it on the Seventh Floor (Chest
nut, West Side), and arranged with that
supreme skill in decoration which only a
Wanamaker Store can display, they form
A Sumptuous and an
Unforgettable Picture!
There are more rugs than the keenest eye
can.count or take in their separaterbeauties.
Starting with the little doormat only 2x3
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feet in size and going to 4x7-feet size, there are matchless colorines. the fWinafW
between 500 to 600 of the smaller rugs and up- weaving of wondrous designs, to be found only
ward of 1000 of the larger sizes, ranging from in a glorious Oriental rug.
bx9 feet up to the royalty of a carpet 14 feet
1 he Glories of Persian
Textile Art
wide and 22 feet long.
They represent our own regular and care
fully selected stocks, augmented by a number
of choice purchases.
"Whence do they -come?" From Persia
and China; some from India, others from
Turkey and a few from Afghanistan and other
remote and mysterious Khanates of the wind
swept uplands of Central Asia.
They bear famous names, which in them
selves vouch for their qualities: Mahal, Saruk,
Herati, Kermanshah, Keashan, Bokhara, Sav
alon. There is more than one antique rug among
them. When we say this of any rug, we do not j coiorjno-s
mean mat we uunK it is. or nope it may De, or
wish it were antique, but that we KNOW it IS
strictly and unequivocally ANTIQUE.
For instance, there's a wonderful little
Tike Bokhara (size about 3x6 feet) that we
know is at least 200 years old, and it may be
much older. Another genuine antique is a
Senna Kurd, size 6x11 feet, priced $1750.
This Rug Sale is an occasion which brings
together the mystical Oriental and the matter-of-fact
American on one common ground: an
appreciation of beauty, as expressed in the
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The Marks of a Beluchistan
Red of a nch, glowing mahogany shade is the prevailing color,
the patterns frequently being conventionalized or geometrical
figures in dark blue, sometimes !?et off In -ubducd green or some
lighter shades.
Beluchistans are usually characterised by a lustious sheen
and in geneial ieenl thru close affinity to Bokhara pieces.
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are represented in rugs of all sizes, and of in
numerable patterns, from quaint, archaic fig
ures of heroes, horses and maidens, to the
endless combinations of ornament and concep
tion and coloring that the subtle Eastern fancy
alone can contrive:
Rugs splendid in somberness, rugs in
gorgeous colorings, "shot through with a thou
sand hues," with here and there a rug whose
creamy background is "picked out" in jewel
like designs in the daintiest, most exquisite
:'ings
The Sale, however, is distinguished not
only for its large and fine collection of genuine
pastoral Persian rugs, but for its remarkable
assemblage of rugs of Chinese weave.
These are gathered by themselves in an im- One of these young business women justi
posing series of groups on one side of the West ' bought a little Chinese rug today foiher room,
Aisle, which is so brilliantly aglow with the gold with the remark, "I've often owned $25, bat'
and the tans and the blues peculiarly associated never thought to own an Oriental rug!"
with Chinese art and decoration that it's not She will again be the owner of $25, many
possible for the most hurried of visitors to pass times over, we trust, but it is not likely that she
that way without a halt and an instinctive will ever aerain purchase a true Oriental rue at
such a price.
In our judgment, one American woman,
working to maintain herself or help her family,
is worth a carden full of Houris. and pertainlv
have been one-hundredth the number of rugs , she is worth an Oriental rug.
as we have here! Some one who cares for her can find it here,
Thus the Wanamaker purchaser has really todaV( at less cost than he supposed possible.
a wilier seieeuuii man was at me service oi
salute to beauty.
It would seem quite incredible that in all
the camps of all the Eastern princelings who
captained the hosts of King Darius there could
Alexander, the owner of the then known world
(who possibly, in weeping for more worlds to
conquer, was weeping for more rugs) !
A wider choice too than had Cleopatra,
for the furnishing of all her palaces; and for
aught anybody knows, even handsomer rugs to
choose from.
One important thing is certain; with the
And what a royal Christmas gift or wedding
gift a fine rug does make!
Of course, when the Sale ends and the rugs
are scattered among thousands of appreciative
homes, the prices their lucky owners paid will
become as legendary as the Houris themselves.
Rugs of this kind cannot be made in this
country. We lack the wonderful vegetable
dyes, the clear, brilliant atmosphere which as-
exception of rarities and antiques (and even sists their action, and we lack th-endless pains
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as moderate, in consideration of their values)
it may be said of the Sale that it contains hun
dreds of rugs at
Prices Possible Even
for Moderate Purses!
Prices are phenomenal for these times. In
many cases they are the same as they were be
fore the war. Though they be fine and famous
taking of the Eastern craftsman.
The rug that'a millionaire can buy in a
minute sometimes consumes twelve, even
eighteen years of the patient life of an Oriental
weaver. Working literally "under his own vine
and figtree," at his (or her) crude loom, in his
simple home, and with the conception of per
fection in accomplishment in his mind, he will
tie about three knots ta minute and tie for
all time to come.
And there are 300 to 650 knots to a square
weaves, of genuine Oriental workmanshiyj ' inch in one of these rugs!
Hamadaiis
are so called from the modern name of the Persian city anciently
known as Ecbatana. An outside band of camel's hair in the natural,
undyed color is a usual characteristic of these rugs. Not infre
quently, however, the fields of Hamadan rugs are woven of camel's
hair and colored wools.
The extended medallion is a motif generally found in Ra
madan, sometimes on a nlain ground woik and again over a
trellis effect in two tones. ,
rugs which, to speak with the glowing Eastern
imagery, seem fit for the feet of Houris
they're not all so costly but what the feet of an
American working-girl can pass over them!
That the Sale includes so many rugs which
can be bought in a minute without one's being
a millionaire is unquestionably its most
interesting feature.
JN Persia you shall finde carpets of course thrummed wooll, the
J- best in the world, and excellently colored. Those cities and
townes you must repaire to,and you must use means to learne all
the order of dying of those thrummes, which are so dyed as neither
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