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Da Vinci Codex Hammer fetches record 30.8 million at auction
A 72 page Leonardo Codex Hammer manuscript from 1508 to 1510 sold at Christie’s for a record 30.8 million dollars. An anonymous private collector bought it by telephone, the Armand Hammer Museum had owned it since 1980.
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