Looted Julio-Claudian bust in Texas thrift store!

Interesting article!

 

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The only stuff my wife and I find at the thrift stores is junk

 

Nice article, RC. I missed the big Goodwill store near where I worked. Used to visit frequently during breaktime. It had fresh inventory every day, but 99% of it is junk. However, I did pulled out a few original numbered prints...

 

Find of a lifetime. I've been waiting 20 years to nab a Jackson Pollock or ancient Roman bust at Goodwill. So far my best art find is an autographed 8x10 of Alf, purchased for $1.50 at the Mankato, MN Salvation Army. Estimated value? >$1.50.

 

I saw that too.

(So did the dummy who took it to the thrift store too I'm sure by now)

 

That's incredible!

 

It's even more incredible that it made it onto the floor for sale, and for $35!

If I picked that up for $35, I would have stayed mum .

 

I love this story - and it is nice to see the museum recovered it. My thrifting days are mostly over, but I'd hate to see how many hours I spent trolling thrift stores, looking for "bargains" that never turned out to be Roman busts or Roman anything actually.

Not ancient Roman, but I did score a Spanish/French antiphonal page from the c. 15th - 18th Century from a Goodwill thrift shop. These were hand-illuminated manuscripts in large format put together for monasteries and nunneries so large choir groups could sing together and look at the same music. Since they were so huge therefore expensive to print, and since labor is cheap (free) in a monasteries, these were hand-made well after the invention of printing. My understanding is that during the 20th century monasteries would rip out a page to sell to tourists (in Spain, mostly).

Antiphonal pages are actually quite common, but they'll run a couple hundred bucks or so nowadays on eBay. But this one was $3.00!






Someday I'll get around to reframing it...

 

Wow, shocking!

Looks like someone glued his nose back into place though.

 

My wife and I loved to go to Godwill and Salvation Army stores. I have bought over 50 name brand shirts from them that were in almost new condition. I always take them to the cleaners (my wife doesn't do shirts) to have them cleaned and starched. I bought a pair of Klipsch floor standing speakers for $100 to a church sponsored thrift stores. A friend of mine offered me $200 for them, but i didn't take the offer. I took them to a place that reconditions speakers. I have found coins and a five dollar bill once. I gave the five dollar bill to the thrift store. The coins were hardly collecting grade, so I spent them. Anyway, thanks for the article.

 

Read it and weep, folks. 25 bucks. Goodwill Chicago. No it ain’t for sale. You can keep your Roman bust. I got the King. Is that sweat or a teardrop? Only the artist knows for sure.

 

we used to get books still on the Best Sellers list for $3 each. What a bargain.

 

The problem is Goodwill and Salvation Army realized about 15-some years ago that they could put all the good things on eBay at auction and realize more than they would ever get at the store.

You used to be able to find clarinets for $20, now the same thing gets bid up to several hundred bucks in some instances.