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Searching second-hand stores for bargains is a pastime for many people, but one lady found she'd come across an Antiques Roadshow-level find that would change her life

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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.

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A thrifter bought a vase from Goodwill in Virginia for $3.99 that turned out to be a pice from Carlo Scarpa, it just sold for $107K.

'[The bids] just kept going up and up and up. I was holding my breath,' Jessica Vincent said of the day her thrifted glass vase went to auction.

Woman finds vase at Goodwill store originally designed by Italian architect Carlo Scarpa

A vase bought from a Goodwill store in Virginia for $3.99 was auction for more than $100,000, The Washington Post reported Sunday.

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