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It was carved marble." Young bought the 52-pound, 19-inch-tall bust for $34.99 in 2018, sharing photos on her Instagram account of the statue strapped to her backseat with a seatbelt.
Sitting on the floor with the price tag of $34.99 was a 52-pound marble bust. As Young later learned, however, this wasn’t just any bust.
SAN ANTONIO (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A marble bust that a woman in Texas bought for $34.99 at a Goodwill store is now temporarily on display at a museum.
Texas woman buys 2,000-year-old sculpture for $34.99 at Goodwill The marble sculpture, which dates from the late 1st century BC to the early 1st century AD, disappeared from Germany after World ...
The marble bust of 18th century landowner John Gordon has been through a lot. It was created in 1728 by well-known French sculptor Edmé Bouchardon, who created statues for the Palace of Versailles.
Laura Young was treasure-hunting at her local Goodwill in 2018 when she spotted it — a white sculpture among the knickknacks and hand-me-downs. Acting on a hunch, she touched the bust to confirm ...
A Texas woman recently came across what may be one of the most precious. Laura Young, an antique dealer, found a neat-looking all-white marble sculpture at a Goodwill in Austin in 2018.
For the humble sum of $34.99, a woman walked out of a Texas Goodwill store with a priceless, 2,000-year-old Roman bust that had gone missing since World War II. But her incredible discovery turned ...