The vase turned out to be a 2,000-year-old Mayan artifact that is now headed to a Mexican museum. “It looked old-ish, but I thought maybe 20, 30 years old and some kind of tourist reproduction ...

“It did look old, but I was thinking a 20- or 30-year-old tourist reproduction.” It turned out to be much more. The vase dates back two millennia. Her thrifty find was, in fact, priceles ...