From Thrift Store Bargain to Six-Figure Treasure: The $3.99 Goodwill Vase that Sold for $107,000

A woman purchased a vase for $3.99 at a Goodwill store in Virginia, only to discover that it was a rare piece by Italian architect Carlo Scarpa. The vase, part of Scarpa's Pennellate series for Venini and produced in 1942, recently sold at auction for $107,100. The technique used to create the vase, known as "pennellate," involves adding colored opaque glass while blowing the piece. The auction house estimated its value at $30,000 to $50,000. It remains unclear how the valuable vase ended up at Goodwill. This discovery follows a similar incident where a woman in Texas found an ancient artifact at Goodwill that turned out to be 2,000 years old.