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Received Wednesday, 11.55 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 29. An American record and possibly a world 's recoi " price for a hook, was paid for one of the eleven existing copies of the Bay FSalm Book published in 1640 and the first hook printed in the Anglo-American colonies. The hook brought 150,000 dollars when sold at auction on behaif of the Gertrude Vanderhllt Whitney Charitahle Trust and the proceeds go to a community hospital at Glencove, Long Island. - 4
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 January 1947, Page 5
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