The lamp has that effect on people, says Rafferty. He first saw it in the 1960s at the Pontiac home of a friend. When she passed away, it was among a variety of things he inherited from her estate.

WHAT: When a Tiffany Studios Geranium table lamp brought $94,800 in a James D. Julia auction in Maine, the fine shade had a lot to do with the result. Measuring 17 inches in diameter, the color ...

In June, Christie’s auctioned 44 Tiffany masterworks from the Garden Museum, a private collection in Japan, and the sale earned a whopping $6,662,124. One piece alone—a rare circa-1905 stained ...