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The big pictureStack's Bowers reports US$70,011,421 including buyer's fees from a sale of more than 12,000 lots, which the firm calls the highest-grossing auction in its history of over 90 years.
Antiques and The Arts Weekly reported a world auction record for a straight-stem Tiffany Studios Daffodil lamp at Cottone Auctions, including fees, within two sessions that together totalled US$1.9m.
Two live sales on 18 and 19 September 2026, including a 31-work Mark Maggiori show that took US$9.3m, sold 94 per cent of lots, against US$13.5m reported for the single 2025 live sale.
The collection of more than 130 works opens at Sotheby's on 16 November 2026 with about two dozen works, and a Rothko estimated at US$10m to US$15m is likely to lead.
Old Cars Weekly reported that Broad Arrow's 2 October Newport sale sold 57 of 65 lots for US$8.3m in total, with a 1914 Stutz Bearcat making US$1,875,000.
The 1995 Roush Mustang Cobra race car, a class winner at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, fetched US$935,000 at Mecum's inaugural Nashville sale, US$330,000 more than an Aston Martin DB5.
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