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Needless to say, Dr. Kelly has his eye on it, as does the rest of the collecting world French Art Deco, going for record prices, is considered to be one of the leading "blue chips" in the modernist market.

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Young hipsters party at HaTaklit (The Record), a bar started by three men who share an obsession for collecting records.

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