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News Top Auction Records of 2025

Here’s a look back at some of last year’s most impressive auction records, including lamps, Lincoln, and Labubu.

Elizabeth Heineman

Auctions Where’s the Kaboom?Kele Johnson

Auctions Tiffany Leaded Lamp Lights Up Auction with New Record Elizabeth Heineman

News $12 Million Toilet is a Royal Flush for Ripley’s Elizabeth Heineman

Art Frida Kahlo’s “El Sueño” Sells for $54.7 Million, Setting New Auction Record Elizabeth Heineman

Auctions Rare Jane Austen Letter and Artifacts Head to Sotheby’s Auction Elizabeth Heineman

Auctions Sotheby’s “The Great One” Auction Celebrates Wayne Gretzky’s Legacy Antique Trader Staff

News Birkin Breaks the Bank at Sotheby’s Kris Manty

Auctions Earthlings Invade Mars (Sort Of)Kele Johnson

Art Soot-Covered Barn Discovery Sets Artist Record Elizabeth Heineman

Collectibles Out of the Shredder and Into the Auction Elizabeth Heineman

Auctions Frank Lloyd Wright Lamp Lights the Way, Sets $7.5M Record Elizabeth Heineman

Auctions Renoir or Not? $12 Drawing Sparks Six-Figure Buzz Elizabeth Heineman

Auctions The Cost of Freedom? Right Around $2.4 Million Antique Trader Staff

Religious Artifacts Ancient Stone Tablet Displaying Ten Commandments Sells for more than $5 Million Antique Trader Staff

News Oldest Stone Carving of the Ten Commandments Set to Auction Antique Trader Staff