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A collection of Japanese prints owned by the British Rail Pension Fund set sales records Tuesday at Sotheby’s London auction house. The collection included works by the great masters of the Japanese wood cut print between 1750 and 1860 and raised a total of $2.86 million. An album of Hokusai’s celebrated “Thirty-Six Views of Fuji” broke the world record for a single lot of Japanese prints, selling for $1.09 million. A fund spokesman said the collection was bought as a hedge against inflation in the early 1970s and proved to be a good investment.