Red-dot stickers indicating a sale popped up minutes after the doors opened at 5 p.m. Thursday night for the Winter Antiques Show’s party at the Park Avenue Armory in New York.
At 5:10, Robert Young Antiques sold a nightstand for $8,750.
By 6:42, Native American art dealer Donald Ellis had sold two masks: one for $2.1 million, another for $2.5 million.