An anonymous telephone bidder paid $937,500 for a 16th-century Jewish prayer book during an auction at Christie’s in New York on Wednesday. The book, part of a 148-item collection from the London Beit Din, sold well above the auction house’s pre-sale estimate of between $300,000 and $500,000.
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