Antique Turkish Melas Rug Pre-1900 Ottoman Empire Geometric Wool Basketball HOF Pistons signed Beckett For those bigger statements

For those bigger statements

This sheet did not — it stayed in the distributor's own stock instead of going up on a wall

📚 On a shelf of earthy 1970s-style ceramics

Get ready to own a piece of Yankees history

and here's the kicker: it's incredibly rare

Antique Turkish Melas Rug Pre-1900 Ottoman Empire Geometric Wool Basketball HOF Pistons signed Beckett For those bigger statementsMelas: The Geometric Masters of the Aegean Coast The Melas weaving tradition comes from Milas (ancient Mylasa), a town in the Mula province of southwestern Turkey the Aegean coastal region that was, in the Ottoman era, one of the most culturally and commercially dynamic zones of the empire. Melas rugs are immediately recognizable to collectors: the bold geometric field compositions, the characteristic Melas border system of complex interleaved