A piece of art donated to a North Carolina thrift shop ended up selling for $1,200 after a sharp-eyed volunteer found out it was created by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí
that she volunteers twice a week at the the Hotline Pink Thrift Shop in Kitty Hawk. She spotted the artwork in the shop's sorting room, where it was waiting to be priced.
"One day I saw this, with a bunch of other paintings lined up on the floor, and I said, 'This is old, this is something special,'" she told WAVY.
"This matches all the information, all the reference and so it checked off all the things in order to confirm it was an original," Melanie Smith told WAVY. Smith is an accredited fine arts appraiser with the
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