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Check Points on How to Buy an Oriental Rug

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This is a folksy book written by one of the few Americans who really knew oriental rugs. Colonel Jacobsen clearly states that this is a book intended to help people purchase their first oriental rug. If you intend to buy one, read this book first, and you will not make a mayor mistake either in terms of money or quality. And after you have bought your rug, the Colonel will show you how to take care of it better than most... Yes, some information may be outdated about Iran and the Central Asian region in general. The book was first published in 1969. But the main purpose of the book remains as useful today as then. Besides there is no comparable newly published book in its price category. The Jacobsen family is still selling rugs and their reputation continues today as high as ever, a feat in an arcane and exoteric business.

This book is terrible, and one can hardly believe that it's made it to fourth edition. The book was written by a rug salesman in 1969 with the sole purpose of motivating customers to purchase rugs at the salesman's Florida stores. Now that it's 1997 one must even assume that that piece of information is moot due to the fact that unless the salesman is one of the oldest living inhabitants of the U.S., he is most likely pushing up pink flamigos in some Floridian cemetary