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Kathianne
09-10-2009, 06:20 PM
Guess I'll drop off more than old clothes to them:

http://cbs4.com/watercooler/goodwill.miami.ballerina.2.1172567.html


Sep 10, 2009 6:57 pm US/Eastern
Goodwill Returns Trashed Treasure Worth $500,000
Kimberley Chapin

This bronze ballerina is worth a lot of money, and that's why Goodwill returned it to the donor.

A recent, generous donation from a hotel included the usual: furniture, mirrors, lamps, paintings and other decorative pieces. While going through those, workers stumbled across a life-size, bronze statue of a ballerina weighing in at 2 ½ tons!

Intrigued by the expensive-looking, signed statue, the management at Goodwill in Miami did some research and identified the original artist and the fact that only ten such ballerinas were produced decades ago. When they were created, collectors paid half a million dollars for each piece.Meaning they are worth much more and 500k now.

According to Goodwill, the sculptor of the piece is Sterett-Gittings Kelsey.

However, not many bargain hunters head to Goodwill searching for $500,000 statues. Savvy art dealers recommended Goodwill sell the statue in the worldwide art market. They could bring in a fortune, all for the nonprofit organization.

But rather than reel in the big bucks, the management at Goodwill decided to return the ballerina...

cat slave
09-11-2009, 09:15 PM
Good post!

My daughter is a big fan of Goodwill...thats one way to make sure none of her
money goes to China! Shes on to something there.