NAVAJO BLANKETS (Rare Matchin & Ambrose Catalog) [SOLD]

NAVAJO BLANKETS catalog

Matchin & Ambrose (Trading Post), Crown Point, New Mexico

Paperback, 8 pages, undated. Red cover with Indian image.  Inside cover with photograph of a baby in a cradleboard entitled “Snug as a Bug in a Rug.”  Illustrated with black and white and color photographs.

This is a mail order catalog from the Matchin & Ambrose Trading Post.  It has some history of Navajo weaving and offers blankets for sale, described as Fancy and Extra Fancy grades and shows a rug that was a blue ribbon winner at the Gallup Inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial in 1925.  Prices shown in the catalog range from $12 to $1000.  Rugs of Ordinary Grades are less expensive, ranging from $6 to $200. 

There is one page devoted to the jewelry made by Navajo, with a photograph of a number of items of jewelry.  The inside back cover lists items of jewelry and price ranges for those items.

Condition:  the red cover got wet in the past and some of the red color bled into the pages of the catalog but all pages are readable.  This is a very rare early trading post catalog.