“Christie’s sold 150 works from the Paul G. Allen Collection for over $1.6 billion Wednesday and Thursday, as wealthy collectors around the world shrugged off economic and crypto worries to invest in trophy artworks. Five paintings broke the $100 million mark Wednesday…several works sold for three or four times their estimates, with several artists setting records at auction, including Vincent van Gogh, Edward Steichen and Gustav Klimt.”

“A 2018 Luka Doncic Rookie Patch Auto card sold for an astounding $4.6 million in a private sale in 2021. Now the card is up for bid for the first time in a public auction.”

Michael Schumacher’s F1 car that he used to win the 2003 championship sold for $14.8MM—shattering the previous F1 car record of $7.5MM for Schumacher’s 2001 F1 car.

Heritage Auctions is offering a signed copy of Gretzky’s first Oilers contract (10 years, $3MM) which includes one of his earliest professional signatures as well as 15 initialed sections.

A 200 lb T. Rex skull named Maximus was unearthed in South Dakota and is considered to be one of the most complete of its kind. It is up for auction at Sotheby’s and is expected to sell for around $15MM.

Judge’s 62nd home run ball, the ball that officially broke Roger Maris’ American League single-season HR record, is currently being fought over by many prominent auction houses with some estimating that it could break the $3MM paid for McGwire’s 70th HR ball.

Sports Card Investor breaks down Fields and more trending football cards in this week’s NFL Market Movers.

“Just as the AFL began to challenge the mighty NFL, Fleer took on sports card giant Topps with a new 1960 football set.”