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Jessica Vincent had just started surveying the shelves of a Virginia thrift store when a vase caught her eye.

Jessica Vincent bought a $3.99 vase at a Goodwill in Virginia because she thought it would look nice in her house. She soon learned how much it was really worth.

A woman who bought a vase for $3.99 at a Virginia thrift store recently sold it for $107,000

Jessica Vincent had just started surveying the shelves of a Virginia thrift store when a vase caught her eye. It was shaped like a bottle and had ribbons of...

The vase was produced by the renowned glass company Venini and designed by Italian architect Carlo Scarpa, who died in 1978.

A woman who bought a vase for $3.99 at a Virginia thrift store recently sold it for $107,000.

When Jessica Vincent spotted a large, candy-cane coloured vase on a Goodwill store shelf, it was love at first sight. But she had no idea the thrift store find she bought for five bucks was, in fact, a rare Italian masterpiece that would eventually auction for $143,370.

​The piece looked old amongst the clutter of measuring cups, candles and other tchotchkes.

Virginia woman says she saved the rare artwork from ‘obscurity’

Jessica Vincent had just started surveying the shelves of a Virginia thrift store when a vase caught her eye. It was shaped like a bottle and had ribbons of color, aqua green and amethyst purple, that spiraled up its glass surface like stripes of paint.