Second-hand shop find turns out to be ancient Roman bust

Second-hand shop find turns out to be ancient Roman bust

The bust was bought for about 35 dollars (San Antonio Museum of Art/AP)

A marble bust that a woman bought for about 35 dollars (£28) from a second-hand shop is temporarily on display at a museum in Texas after experts determined it was a centuries-old sculpture missing from Germany since the Second World War.

The bust, which art collector Laura Young found at a Goodwill shop in 2018, once belonged in the collection of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, according to the San Antonio Museum of Art, which is temporarily displaying the piece until it is returned to Germany next year.

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