First, let me thank the admins on this forum for their service and for letting me post here.

2nd, I'm away from home right now and from my rugs and camera but I have two rugs that I want to post here and ask for the help of the members. I do have some camera phone photos of one and I'm going ahead and posting them here; I don't think they're terrible but if it turns out you all need more/better photos then I'll post them when I return home.

Here's my story on this first rug.

I acquired this rug in the mid-late 80's from the family of a retired Air Force colonel. I don't know how old it is supposed to be but I did have an appraisal done at the time which I now cannot find. Here's is some of the info that was on the appraisal as best as I can remember it: Nain; 80% wool 20%silk; name woven into the rug was either Hammadi, Hamadi or Hammamadi and I can't remember for sure or the exact spelling as you can see; the appraised amount was $26,000. It's size is roughly 9.5 x 6.5 feet.

I had not done any research all of these years but now got a bit curious and decided to do some internet looking and found this site among many others. I now know that the signature is probably not any of the above 3 that I named and is more likely a Habibian, nice rug with fake Habibian or just a bad fake Habibian.

So, please, any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated and I apologize in advance if the photos are inadequate and will be happy to post more next week with the other rug, a Tabriz (I presume).

Thanks.

It does say Iran Habibian but I would disagree with KAD, although it's a good rug I don't think it's the finest or most systematic form of knotting. I'd say the valuation, especially for back then, is very ambitious.

I agree with little Persia about the uneven knot structure. But even very fine rugs made in 1970 - 80 looked different from fine rugs today.