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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;4to2centBC, post: 2284034, member: 76181&quot;]Apparently it is the provenance driving that price</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Provenance: From the Lieutenant Commander Henry Honychurch Gorringe collection of the Worcester Art Museum. Commander Gorringe was contracted to move the obelisk of Thutmosis III, also known as Cleopatra&#039;s Needle, from Alexandria, Egypt to Central Park in New York City in <b>1879</b>; <u>he collected artifacts found during the excavation and move of the obelisk into his private collection of antiquities, of which part was consigned to the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, MA.</u></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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