The overcasting doesn't look new and your pictures aren't up to your usual high standards
but it looks like a late 19th century turn or the century.

Thanks for the early comments. New and improved pictures are in place of the bad pictures. The lighting was sufficient this morning and I apologize

Some kind of rug you may post to turkotek.com.
Looks like a Tekke with Chemche Gul. An old one.

Hi Ed.
The way to learn about old and antique rugs is to speak with a group of collectors who know everything about a type of rugs.
I told btuma to post it to Turkotek because of that. Questions like symmetric or asymetric open left or right, one or double weft, design and orign. There are more ordinary rugs on this forum like this one.

Chris

Thanks for all your comments. This has been a helpful learning process for me. Bokhara thank you, that is what turkotek also said, and I agree it is not a "whoa" rug, The only item they noted of interest was the changing of colors at one end is unusual
The best learning experience I got is to ask others when you don't know. I got this rug at a garage sale thinking it was old and the ends were different. I got it home, didn't ask anyone or research it, and put it in the closet thinking it was nothing. I actually put it in a garage sale fo $35 myself. Then a couple of days again, I started to look at pictures and it seemed to have markings of an old tekke.

However, if there wasn't a site like this to ask I won't have the slightest idea if it was just my imagination, just junk or an "interesting rug"

Morale of the story is ignorance is very easy thing in rugs and it is neccessary to rely on those that know.

Thanks for all of your expertise.