The art and antique furnishings of late philanthropist Brooke Astor raked in more than $18.8M at auction, far exceeding the $6M to $9M estimates. The sum is only a couple million shy of the selling price of her Park Place duplex, which sold for $21M last October, but 2.5 times what her country home in Westchester County went for a month later. [WSJ; previously]
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