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These are two 1950 magazine advetisements for Whittall Rugs and Carpets. - Whittall's Carpets was a manufacturer of machine-made carpets in based in the State of Maine active during circa 1945 to 1960. Whittall applied his knowledge to two innovative lines of Whittall's carpets - the top-of-the-line Whittall's Anglo Persian items being made in attractive Oriental-style designs, with the Whittall's Royal Wiltons more in the floral European style.
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Rugs and CarpetsWool-pile rugs are thought to have been invented in Mid-Eastern Asia, over …