Ugly Rug Sells for $4.45 million

I think the person that paid for this rug got gypped. The rug is in pretty poor condition if you asked me. Maybe the Newport Restoration Foundation who paid the big bucks for the thing will fix it up and make it look decent. I am all for antiques but I think condition is as important as well as age and provenance. I guess this is more from a comic collectors point of view since you actually pay less for damaged copies.