4. The Bidding War Ended in Over a Minute

“They had to bring over water and stuff to me and wipe sweat off my head,” Krytzer recalls. He couldn’t believe his ears when the price started at $150,000, then going up to $500,000, then to $1 million and it only stopped at $1.5 million. A phone buyer and Don Ellis were in the bidding war, ending with Ellis winning the Navajo blanket.