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Show BETTER ORIENTAL RUGS HARD TO GET IN CONSTANTINOPLE CONSTATINOPI.K. tiepl. !1 Cood Or. lental rugs In tha local market are hard to get nowadaya. and the principal re. S". k."' transportation facilities I rrom the pioduclng centrrs. Hence prices en good stock are being maintained. i The city abounds In ruga, however, tha I demand from the fnltml states and Kn- ' gland giving a stimulus to the trade, but 1 many are of poor quality. Thla grade Is chean. slid there are few buvere. i W'hen the Ruestana got Into the Cauca- I atte the authorities confiscated large ' storks of good qualltv. As these rugs i coat them nothing, they sent them to i onstantinople for sale at vrry low prices. ! Th. first shipments from 11a turn Included I acme of the finest Kaaacka ever seen lot the public market, and the huvera will not have a similar opportunity again. I l-ater, when the best slo, k had been ex- ' hauated. the Rusalane exported what may ! he termed the sweenlnt. of the rug die- trlcts. and most of the Hhlrvana received i here were of very poor nualily. prices , on these goods now are low. ar,r numoer or Heluchtatan rugs came to Constantinople early In ISM and were all sold at once at a falrlv low price. But one had difficulty in finding fifty good pleoea In a thousand, and not more than three or four pieces of what private liuvera call "blue" Heluchlatan. Oermany Is out of the market, the Import Im-port of Oriental ruga being prohibited. Italy bought a limited quantity of a poorer poor-er quality, and elwltaerland and Caecho-alovakla Caecho-alovakla also took a few. |