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One American woman is celebrating after auctioning off a $3.99 Goodwill vase for over $100k.
People are always finding hidden gems in charity shops and thrift stores. Or at least, people on the internet seem to be. While the rest of us only seem to find strange ornamental pieces and obscure band t-shirts, they are snapping up some truly noteworthy items.
The Goodwill find of the century
The latest lucky lady was 43-year-old Virginia local Jessica Vincent, who strolled into her local Goodwill looking for a statement piece of glassware for Christmas. She discovered a 13-inch vase washed in green and burgundy brush strokes. It instantly caught her eye and she knew that “it was coming home with me.”
Ever the investigator, Jessica did some research and discovered that the cheeky find was from Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa, who designed the piece for the Venni workshop on the Isle Murano. She had essentially found the Meryl Streep of glassware.
The retro 1940s piece caught further attention once Jessica uploaded an image of it to a specialty Facebook page. Fans were enthralled by the vase and one even confessed that they “would die if I saw that out in the wild.”
Someone offered to pay her $10k, while others suggested she take it to Wright’s Auction House in New York. So that’s exactly what she did.
The vase broke expectations at auction
Initial estimations suggested that Jessica could bag anywhere up to $50k for the piece, but when it went to auction on December 13, even those estimates were blown out of the water. It sold for a staggering $107,100!
‘It’s an amazing story that this very sophisticated piece of glass finds its way to Virginia,” Richard Wright, founder of the auction house, said. “It was expensive, not mass-produced and it fell through the cracks all the way down to the Goodwill. It’s not even chipped.”
“Never in 35 years have we had a piece like this in our hands,” added Wright’s glass specialist.
Jessica was ecstatic, of course
Jessica was naturally thrilled after bagging such a huge profit from the sale. She will no doubt be scouring Goodwill for more items in the future.
Speaking to The New York Times, she further explained that she would never have dreamt of keeping it.
“I knew I wanted to get it back in the art world. They didn’t know it existed,” she said. “I feel like I saved it from obscurity.”
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