A Handsome Early 20thC Quchan Kurdish Rug, 259cm x 109cm sub-Antiques and original working lock with

and original working lock with key

by an artist whose stock is certainly rising from an already well-respected portfolio

an automotive engineer who designed a new type of spring

and became famous for rescuing the survivors of RMS Titanic after the latter ship hit an iceberg and sank on 15 April 1912

the way in which we now expect a door stop to look and function today was down to a 19th century African American inventor named Osbourn Dorsey who came up with the design on December 10

A Handsome Early 20thC Quchan Kurdish Rug, 259cm x 109cm sub-Antiques and original working lock withOrigin: Khorasan, North East Persia Style: Quchan Kurd Provenance: N A Dated: c. 1910 30 Hand Knotted 100% Wool Pile Length: 259 cms 8. 6 feet Width: 109 cms 3. 7 feet The wide runner shaped carpet with broad tassel fringes having a large latticed central field with repeating lozenge pattern in apple greens, rust and indigos the outer with multiple ruled border survives from the first quarter of the twentieth century. This piece is beautifully worn