Kelly Crow
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Do they want jewelry?
Do they want art?
What kind?
And then the same with the Indian diaspora.
We're seeing them branch out and buying other things.
Well, the prices are always going up, and certainly for paintings like the Gustav Klimt that sold for $236.4 million.
But it's interesting when you see collectors start to pay what I call like trophy art prices for things that are kind of novelty items like...
Jane Birkin's original Hermes Birkin bag sold for $10.1 million this year.
Christie's sold a Fabergé egg for $30.2 million.
That's a record for a Fabergé egg.
Smaller houses like Phillips adding more natural history things.
So you see dinosaur bones.
They sold a $5.4 million Triceratops this year and a bunch of other amulets.
And they tried to sell a huge gold nugget.
And like, they're just like, you do get the feeling that they're still just sort of
testing the field of what do the younger buyers want and how kooky do they want to be.
You're going to see more sports memorabilia coming into these big auctions.
I feel like there's sort of a quirkiness that comes with the younger group, which honestly, I'm fine.
Let's mix it up.
It doesn't all have to be Rothko all the time.