Several month ago RugTalker posted an older, most comments said it was from the "70s. Isfahan of which sparked my interest in myself having such a rug.

Last Friday I took a seven hour round trip drive to purchase this rug in Seattle. The mileage and gas was free, and I had the day off without anything else to do. I am hanging the rug, and although I would like to know the worth, I will not be sellng the rug.

The rug is 50"X74" and I purchased it for $250 from a private party off Craigslist. I've done alot of Google work, but yet I'm lost.
The images certainly look like a fine isfahan with somewhere around 400 kpsi ( I fins it is impossible for me to count the weft).

Correct me if I'm wrong in any of my above assumption includng vicinity of knot count. I am asking the question since I don't have the answers, want to know more about the rug, and as a learning tool.

Which brings me to age. The surface certanly looks very recent. To my eye it is almost flawless. However, I have read some comments on cotton/wool smaller fine rugs being older plus the blue salvage.

What is the age? Is it a 1950s rug or much later 80s-90's, and what is it's worth.

Thank you for any comments.

Thank you for your comments, but they do surprise me. I'm not surprised at the possilbility of Chinese, but the fringe is knotted, to my untrained eye, in the same manner as any of the other fine ebay rugs I can see. I realzie that different areas do knot the fringe differently What is it that shows this is Chinese rather than Persian?

Thanks again.