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03-24-2009, 07:52 AM
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| Hello PG members, has anyone seen this carpet on auction mid-march. Finally sold up to 5.5 Millions dollards in Doha by Sotheby's. said to have 2 millions natural Gulf pearls, first exhibited in 1902. can someone put a link to an american newspaper issue about it ? cannot find any on my side. Enjoy the picture (credit Photo : Karim Jaafar/AFP)
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03-24-2009, 02:44 PM
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| Bloomberg News (post-sale) Sotheby's had quite a lengthy release before the auction. Links on an older thread HERE. Aside their news bites, newspapers reported a correction of the estimate - for what that sort of claim is worth. PS: NYT, May 5, 1917 (!) - see the bottom half of the last column. I believe the book and witness account was a source for Sotheby's as well. The original description sounds different though. Nice to have these old texts out there! 
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03-24-2009, 09:19 PM
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| This must be the world's heaviest carpet! |
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03-24-2009, 10:19 PM
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| Look at that! Nothing but pearls! And every one had to be drilled and stitched. A lifetime of work. $5.5M sounds like a bargain.
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03-25-2009, 06:46 AM
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| At $5,485,000 for an historic carpet made of approx. 2,000,000 pearls--all natural, drilled and sewn into a carpet...... Let's see--that comes out to just about $2.73 each. Yes, quite a bargain at that.
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03-25-2009, 05:14 PM
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| This one of my favorite pieces of hsitory. Sigh.... Here is a link wiht extremely great detail of the carpet you can see the glass beads and other gemtones used even wehre a couiple pearls have "fallen off" the carpet! Hmm I wonder.. cheers Ash
__________________ Ash Last edited by Ash; 03-25-2009 at 05:17 PM.. Reason: Added link |
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