{"id":767332,"date":"2022-01-26T22:24:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T22:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/26\/7-thrift-store-chair-auctioned-for-more-than-21000-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2022-01-26T22:24:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T22:24:26","slug":"7-thrift-store-chair-auctioned-for-more-than-21000-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/26\/7-thrift-store-chair-auctioned-for-more-than-21000-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"$7 thrift store chair auctioned for more than $21,000 in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A chair purchased from a Brighton, England, thrift store for just under $7 was auctioned for more than $21,000 when it was identified as the work of Austrian artist Kolomon Moser. Photo courtesy of Sworders<\/p>\n

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Jan. 26 (UPI) —<\/span> A wood and wicker chair purchased from a thrift store in Britain was auctioned for more than $21,000 when it was identified as the work of an early 20th-century artist.<\/p>\n

Auction house Sworders said a woman bought the chair for just under $7 at a thrift store in Brighton, England.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

“When I got the chair home, I had a closer look and thought it looked really interesting. I emailed some pictures to the V&A museum but had no response,” the seller, who wished to remain anonymous, told Sworders.<\/p>\n

“My next stop was Sworders. I emailed design specialist John Black and he responded immediately.”<\/p>\n

Black recognized the chair as the 1902 work of Austrian artist Koloman Moser. Black consulted a specialist on the Vienna Secession, who confirmed his identification of the chair.<\/p>\n

Moser, a teacher at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, designed the chair as a modern reinterpretation of a traditional 18th-century ladder-back chair, the auction house said.<\/p>\n

The chair sold for $21,874.12 at Tuesday’s auction, Sworders said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A chair purchased from a Brighton, England, thrift store for just under $7 was auctioned for more than $21,000 when it was identified as the work of Austrian artist Kolomon Moser. Photo courtesy of Sworders Jan. 26 (UPI) — A wood and wicker chair purchased from a thrift store in Britain was auctioned for more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":767333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}