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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8331984, member: 85693&quot;]I love this story - and it is nice to see the museum recovered it.&nbsp; My thrifting days are mostly over, but I&#039;d hate to see how many hours I spent trolling thrift stores, looking for &quot;bargains&quot; that never turned out to be Roman busts or Roman anything actually.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Not ancient Roman, but I did score a Spanish/French antiphonal page from the c. 15th - 18th Century from a Goodwill thrift shop.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; My understanding is that during the 20th century monasteries would rip out a page to sell to tourists (in Spain, mostly).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Antiphonal pages are actually quite common, but they&#039;ll run a couple hundred bucks or so nowadays on eBay.&nbsp; But this one was $3.00!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie83" alt=":singing:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1476923[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1476924[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1476925[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Someday I&#039;ll get around to reframing it...<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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