I saw this recently on Yahoo! News – A woman bought a sculpture at Goodwill for $34.99. It actually was a missing ancient Roman bust.: https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-bought-sculpture-goodwill-34-222445699.html/. Longer article on USA TODAY which requires a subscription to view.
Jordan Mendoza May 5, 2022
An ancient Roman bust from around the first century that had been missing for decades has finally made its way into the San Antonio Museum of Art, and all it took was for one artist to buy it from a Texas Goodwill for under $40.
In 2018, art collector Laura Young was shopping at a Goodwill store in Austin, Texas when she stumbled upon a sculpture on the floor beneath a table, according to the San Antonio Museum of Art. Someone that looks for undervalued or rare art pieces, Young told The Art Newspaper she bought the piece for $34.99, and a picture of it after she bought it shows it buckled up in her car with a price tag on its cheek.
After buying the bust, Young noticed it looked very old and worn, so she wanted to find out when and where it came from. Over the next couple of years, Young consulted with experts in art history at the University of Texas at Austin and those at auction houses across the United States looking for answers.
Eventually, Jörg Deterling, a consultant for the fine arts brokerage Sotheby’s, identified the bust as a piece that was once in a German museum decades ago, and connected her with German authorities.
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What find!
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