eRugGallery.com Appoints Authentication and Appraisal Specialist; Expands Breadth of Services for On-Line Distribution Channel.Business Editors SAN CARLOS San Carlos (săn kär`lōs), residential city (1990 pop. 26,167), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1925. The chief manufactures are plastic products, hardware, and machine parts. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 2000 eRugGallery.com, the leading virtual marketplace exchange for visual products, has named Elisabeth Poole head of Authentication and Appraisals. In her new role, Poole will review $60 million of inventory each year to select only the highest quality, hand-woven rugs for the eRugGallery.com site. Poole, who formerly served as vice president and head of Christie's Rug and Carpet rug and carpet Any decorative textile normally made of a thick material and intended as a floor covering. Floor coverings made of plaited rushes date from the 5th or 4th millennium BC. Department in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , joined eRugGallery.com with a clear focus on building the site's virtual inventory with superior quality merchandise. As a featured appraiser A person selected or appointed by a competent authority or an interested party to evaluate the financial worth of property. Appraisers are frequently appointed in probate and condemnation proceedings and are also used by banks and real estate concerns to determine the market for three years running on PBS's Antiques Road Show, Ms. Poole offers valuable insight on every component of a fine rug investment. She brings eRugGallery.com the unique benefit of her tenure at Christie's, where she was responsible for client and business development, appraisals of property for sale and the organization of 13 major sales per year. "Elisabeth Poole has a keen awareness of aesthetics," said Jean Claude Brunache, senior vice president of Sales and Marketing for eRugGallery.com. "Her credibility and authentication complement her merchandising insights and expertise. Elisabeth has terrific academic credentials and intuition - from which all of our eRugGallery.com partners will greatly benefit." Ms. Poole joined Christie's as a specialist in March 1996 after five years at Butterfield and Butterfield in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . A native Californian, Ms. Poole holds a bachelor's degree from Colby College Colby College, at Waterville, Maine; coeducational; est. 1813, opened 1818. The school, principally a liberal arts college, adopted its present name in 1899. Its library includes the papers of Edwin Arlington Robinson. , Maine, and a certificate from Sotheby's Decorative Arts Course in London, England. She is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay Rug Society, the Hajji Baba Rug Society, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , and the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. "I have a passion for the remarkable artistry of hand-woven rugs," Ms. Poole commented. "My goal was to merge my intimate knowledge of the rug industry with the emerging e-commerce revolution. eRugGallery.com was the ideal choice. This platform allows me to be an integral part of the selling process and ensure that our partners and their customers are both comfortable and confident in their buying decisions." About eRugGallery.com eRugGallery.com, a leading provider of virtual marketplace exchanges for visual products, enables a more efficient and effective way to match individual buyers with one-of-a-kind products. For distributors of fine handmade rugs, eRugGallery.com provides visual inventory search, storage, and management capabilities, objective purchase evaluation guidelines and more cost-effective access distribution channels. For more information, please visit the company's website at http://www.eRugGallery.com or call 1.888.755.ERUG. |
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