"I knew within five minutes that I had something valuable," John Carcerano, the Chicago area resident who found the plate, told Newsweek.

An Illinois resident scored a thrift store find that can’t be beat. After purchasing a plate for $4.99 at Goodwill, carpet cleaner John Carcerano discovered it was worth way more than that. Carcerano ...

Imagine stumbling upon a hidden treasure while browsing a thrift store. That's what happened to one shopper who found a rare ...

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A guy in Illinois named John Carcerano made a once-in-a-lifetime find on a regular trip to a thrift store in October when he ...

After sufficient perusal, Kail contacted the Chinese consulate in Chicago explaining that the photographs belonged to the ...

APPRAISER: It's porcelain. And I can tell you it came from ... that's called a rouleau vase that was made in China, because this is Chinese. GUEST: Oh. APPRAISER: And I knew that from the colors ...

The 32-year-old artist, who has spent the past three years in Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province, China's "porcelain capital", ...

A man named John Carcerano from Illinois is trending in the headlines after he purchased Chinese porcelain from a thrift store and later discovered that its value was worth thousands of dollars.

The 32-year-old artist, who has spent the past three years wandering through Jingdezhen, dubbed China's "porcelain capital", ...