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MAGIC CARPET RIDE

SHOW LEGENDARY DEALER PETER PAP AN ANTIQUE Oriental rug, and he starts weaving stories. Of the passion of pursuit. Of history. Of art. Of adventure.

Pap has a lot to say: He’s a nearly 50-year veteran of the business, one of the country’s foremost experts on antique rugs, carpets, and tribal weavings. He’s a former longtime guest appraiser on PBS’s “Antiques Roadshow” and has exhibited more than 500 times at antiques shows around the country.

It all starts in the 1970s, when Pap, whose eponymous galleries are in Dublin, New Hampshire, and San Francisco, got a job as a stock boy

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