Rugs of Poland

These eight groups are the world's "Great" rugs. They are very rare, and there are no more where they came from. They are still, in spite of all the conjecture and research, mysterious.

They are incredibly beautiful, and they are fantastically expensive, cost­ing per square foot "somewhere between the price of New York real estate and the price of the famous 'Blue Boy.'"

These glamorous facts combined to sing a siren song that the industrial tycoons of the turn of the century couldn't possibly resist. So the famous American collections were gathered to­gether.

Collecting great rugs is no hobby for you or me. It is no hobby for the well to do or the merely rich. It is a hobby only for the very, very rich.