You just never know what you'll find scrounging around a Goodwill. Most of the time you find junk. But you know what they say, one person's trash is another person's treasure.
And this vase a woman named Jessica Vincent found at a Goodwill in Virginia literally became a treasure.
She purchased the piece for $3.99. Turns out, the glass vase was the work of an Italian architect named Carlo Scarpa, as part of his Scarpa's Pennellate series for Venini, according to CBS News.
The piece turned out to be very old, having been made in 1942, and very…very expensive.
Vincent was "pretty savvy," said Richard Wright, president of Wright Auction House, whom Vincent contacted because she thought this was more than just a normal vase. She said she started questioning its true value after noticing a signature on the bottom.
Though the vase was valued at somewhere between $30,000-$50,000, it sold for more than $100,000!
It's a very well documented piece of glass," Wright said. "Carlo Scarpa is really one of the preeminent, most famous glass designers of Italian glass in the midcentury. So his designs are valued by the market right at the top."
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