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Show WORLD-FAMOUS ! ART COLLECTION1 NEW YO'RK, Dec. IS. The presentation presen-tation to the Metropolitan Museum of art of the residue of the world-famous are collection of the late J. Pierpont Morgan by his sou-, J. P. Morgan, it Avas said today, carries out tho wishes of the financier, who suggested that, his collections be placed where they could be made "permanently available for the pleasure and instruction of the American people." Estimates of the value of the gift to the Metropolitan Museum range as high as $7,500,000 but many of the articles, ar-ticles, unique in the world of art are considered priceless. The collection includes in-cludes more than 3000 objects, in addition ad-dition to 4000 items of tho Greau ancient an-cient glass and pottery section. I |