Jessica Vincent found this rare Murano glass vase in an op shop in Virginia. It sold at auction for $171,000. Photo / AP Jessica Vincent had just started surveying the shelves of a Virginia thrift ...

The vase was then listed as part of Wright's "Important Italian Glass" sale with a valuation of between $30,000 and $50,000. The final sale price more than doubled the top estimate.

In June, Jessica Vincent purchased this vase for $3.99 during a quick stop at Goodwill on her way home from work. This week ,it sold for more than $100,000.

Contemporary Murano-inspired works, clockwise from top left: Stories of Italy black-and-white reversible vase, about $260, storiesofitaly.com; Hawkins New York Confetti double old-fashioned glass ...

Flash forward a couple months and the vase has now sold for over $107,000. The bottle-shaped design features a swirling pattern that's blown with translucent red and opaque seafoam green glass.

Even without the mark, DuMouchelle was able to confirm that it is art glass, as Kemper suspected. “If we were to put this up for auction, we would list it as something like “Continental art ...

Next to arrive is David, a glass collector of 30 years and avid charity shop hunter. He discovered a Murano glass vase that just doesn’t fit with his collection, but he’s hoping for a ...

"In Murano we are born near the ovens," master glass-maker Simone Cenedese told Sunday Morning correspondent Allen Pizzey. "It's a thing that comes to you like speaking and writing and walking ...