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Taranaki Daily News, 22 October 1921, Page 9

Lying in one of London’s biggest banks are ten wonderful carpets with a history. They are valued at £lO,OOO, and have had some curious adventures. A certain Russian Count famous in the old Czar regime was fleeing from the Bolsheviks at the time of the revolution. He had nothing with him but the ten carpets. These were given to one of his ancestors by a former Czar of Russia, who had them from a Shah of Persia of that period—several hundreds of years • ago—who presumably had them made- ' for his harem or palace. On arrival at i Batoum the count found that he was ? quite “broke,” so he handed the treacur,ed carpets over to a Russian Jew, then proceeding lo England, with instructions to sell them. A substantial deposit was . paid orf Account. The carpets are etill i in London, and what the ead of tha. ' will be has to be decided, but at ’ present the trustees have considered the only safe ptace for Uem We Jhe aUong TaaiMAt *>«ak. ' ?