Posted on 06/19/2024 11:44:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
A vase purchased for $3.99 at a Maryland thrift store turned out to be a nearly 2,000-year-old Mayan artifact.
Anna Lee Dozier of Washington, said she was shopping at the 2A Thrift Store in Clinton when her attention was grabbed by an unusual vase.
"It looked old-ish, but I thought maybe 20, 30 years old and some kind of tourist reproduction thing so I brought it home," Dozier told WUSA-TV.
Dozier said she was visiting Mexico on a work trip earlier this year when she noticed some items on display at the Museum of Anthropology bore a startling resemblance to the vase she purchased for $3.99.
She spoke with a museum official, who recommended she contact the Mexican embassy when she returned home.
Dozier shared photos and the dimensions of the vase with the embassy, and the item was identified as a Mayan artifact dating from A.D. 200-800.
Dozier and her family returned the vase to Mexican Ambassador Estaban Moctezuma Barragan in a ceremony held at the Cultural Institute of Mexico.
"I am thrilled to have played a part in it's repatriation story. I would like it to go back to its rightful place and to where it belongs," she said, "But I also want it out of my home because I have three little boys and I have been petrified, well it's gone now, but I was petrified that after two-thousand years I would be the one to wreck it!"
Officials said the vase will eventually have a new home at a Mexican museum.
Another thrift store vase, purchased for $3.99 from a Goodwill store in Virginia, was auctioned last year for over $107,000 when it was found to be designed by Carlo Scarpa for famed Italian company Venini in 1942.
PinGGG!.....................
coalburner
Libtard gave it away for free.
Who?
Thanks Red Badger.
Oh, I watched the vid. Well, she IS one of our betters in DC. And she was ripping out the espanol pretty fast.
DC is just filled with these high living grifters.
Did she make a profit?
5.56mm
No, she gave it away...............
I was just watching an Antiques Roadshow episode this morning on YouTube where they reviewed some of the best “finds” over the years.
The best story IMHO was a Federal style wooden hall table the lady bought for $35. It was built by some famous furniture maker in Boston in the 1700s.
It was later auctioned by Sotheby’s for over $500,000.
And it will be promptly stolen and sold back to some collector.
In short, she’s an idiot.
watch the video
The best story IMHO was a Federal style wooden hall table the lady bought for $35. It was built by some famous furniture maker in Boston in the 1700s.
It was later auctioned by Sotheby’s for over $500,000.
There’s an obscure carving on the bottom of the middle drawer that says “The Secret Lies With Charlotte”.
I did. She’s a flaming libtard.
FTA: I am thrilled to have played a part in it’s repatriation story.
Should be
“its repatriation story.”
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Is it too much to ask these “writers” to proofread?
I’ll only add that the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City is a phenomenal museum. I have no desire to travel to Mexico again, but it is well worth the time if you’re there.
It took me until just now to recall what you were referring to.
From the movie National Treasure.
;-)
I used to shop at 2nd stores all the time. Never accidentally bought anything valuable.
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