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Unfortunately we have another post from r/ThriftStoreHauls that'll make you green with envy. The OP found a small Murano vase from Goodwill for $6.99. "Might keep this one since it's super cute ...
An unassuming vase picked up at a Virginia Goodwill store for $3.99 turned out to be an ultra-rare piece of Murano glass which sold at auction for $107,100 — nearly $50k more than the auction ...
It all started when an unnamed woman from Virginia purchased a vase at a Richmond Goodwill store in June. The price she bought it for, $3.99.
Vincent purchased it at a Goodwill store outside Richmond, Va., in June for $3.99. It was sold through the Wright Auction House in Chicago on Wednesday Dec. 13, 2023, to a private European ...
This vase was purchased from a Virginia Goodwill for $3.99. It just sold for $107,000 COLLEEN CURRAN Richmond Times-Dispatch Dec 15, 2023 Dec 15, 2023 ...
A Virginia woman is enjoying a dream that every thrift shop customer wishes for -- a vase she bought for $3.99 was a rare piece sold at an art auction last week for $107,100.
Vincent arrived at the Goodwill on a June afternoon with her partner, Naza Acosta, after a day of training horses. The vase felt heavy in her hands. And while Vincent had seen painted glass before ...
Glass is a chemical compound, so from the point of view of the material itself, there is nothing special about Murano. What is special is still the ability of the craftsman." ...
The Brooklyn-based glass artist Andrew O. Hughes, 42, attributes contemporary interest in Murano to several factors: a bit of ceramic fatigue, a desire for the luminosity of glass in an era of ...
"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 ...