A North Carolina artist once walked into a Goodwill store looking for inexpensive material for her own artwork and walked out with what would turn out to be a valuable piece of American abstraction. Beth Feeback paid just $9.99 for a large painting in 2012, not because she admired the artwork, but because she wanted to reuse its canvas for one of her own paintings featuring cats. Months later, a friend's suggestion to check the markings on the back changed the fate of the seemingly ordinary thrift-store find, according to a report by ABC News.
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