Notes on Dr. Ian Bennett

June Barrett <junebarrett.sca@btconnect.com> wrote:
To: Barry O’Connell

Dear Mr. O’Connell
We have just accessed your website and was interested to see that there is no mention of our move from Woolley and Wallis’s Salisbury Salerooms to Netherhampton Salerooms, Salisbury . The carpet department at Woolley and Wallis was closed in February 2004 and Ian Bennett and I immediately relocated to a new, young saleroom just three miles south west of Salisbury City Centre (and Woolley and Wallis).

We hold five sales each year, of anywhere between 400-600 lots in each, and our first sale for our new employers was held on 29th April 2004 .

This email is in some haste as we are frantically trying to get the next catalogue to our printers for the next sale, as above, but our catalogues can be accessed, about two weeks before each sale, on the antiques trade gazette website:

www.antiquestradegazette.com/netherhampton . You do have to register, but this does not cost you anything. Also we have our own website, and the catalogue will also be on this in due course: www.salisburyauctioncentre.co.uk and this is easy to navigate around. Click on catalogues, I think, to view the catalogue. It is a two day sale with the furniture, silver and decorative items being held on the Wednesday (next one 26th July) and our carpets, rugs and textiles on the Thursday (27th July).

All our details may be found on our website, but if you have any questions, please do let me know.

Kind regards
June Barrett
Ian Bennett

Dr. Ian Bennett is one of the most important writers, editors, and authors in the field of Oriental Carpets. He formerly consulting to Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury Salerooms Ltd.
Editor of Hali in the magazine's glory years.
Bennett, I. Book of Oriental Carpets and Rugs. 1973,
Bennett, I. Jail Birds. 1987,
Bennett, I. Oriental Rugs, Vol I: Caucasian. 1981.
Bennett, I. Oriental Rugs, Vol I: Caucasian. 1981. (1993 printing),
Bennett, I. Rugs and Carpets of the World. A & W Publ., 1977,
Bennett, Ian. Oriental Rugs Volume 1 Caucasian. Suffolk, UK: 1981. (1993 reprint),
Homer, J. P. J. Exclusively Belouch Forward by Ian Bennett
Bennett, Ian. "Splendors in the City of Silk, Part 4: The Remaining Classical Carpets" in Hali. Vol. 9: No. iii, issue 35. 1987. 32-43, 124-127.
Bennett, Ian Three Baluch Rugs, Hali, I/1, pp. 399-400
Bennett, Ian. The Baluch Boom, Oriental Rug Auction Review, vol. 1, no. 3, May, pp. 1-3. 1981
Bennett, Ian. On Collecting Baluch Rugs, Hali, vol. 3, no. 1 1983
Bennett, I. (1972) "Book of Oriental Carpets and Rugs". London: Hamlyn.

Bennett, Ian. et al. Rugs & Carpets of the World. New York: A&W Publishers, Inc. 1977.

Bennett has done a great job with this book. The part on classical carpets is excellent. Bennett remains one of the most important scholars in the field of Classical Oriental Carpets. The book gives a good general look at a wide range of types of rugs. It is one of the only books I have that covers Navaho rugs. General Rug Book

Bennett, Ian. et al. Oriental Rugs Volume 1 Caucasian. Oriental Textile Press, 1981.

If you are interested in Caucasian rugs buy this book. The color picture quality is a little spotty but there are many pictures and good commentary. This book is extremly useful since it gives a good picture of the rugs that passed through a major auction house airly revently. In it we can see rugs that correspond to the rugs in the market place today. Caucasian Rugs Bennett, Ian

Thanks and best wishes,

J. Barry O'Connell Jr.

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