CLEARFIELD COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — A uncommon 14-karat gold LEGO piece that turned up at a Goodwill Warehouse in Pennsylvania is now up for public sale.
A childhood basic, LEGOs, can preserve a inventive thoughts busy for hours. For collectors, some LEGO items can imply massive bucks. Nonetheless, few LEGO lovers will ever be fortunate sufficient to discover a LEGO made out of 14-karat gold.
The piece which is known as the Bionicle Golden Kanohi Hau Masks was discovered by employees on the warehouse in DuBois and is believed to be solely one in all 30 in existence. In 2001, some had been gifted to LEGO staff and the remaining had been awarded by means of a contest.
“There’s 30 of the gold ones. They do make some silver ones and a few platinum ones,” Goodwill Vice President of E-commerce and Expertise Chad Smith mentioned.
When Goodwill employees found the tiny treasure, nobody knew what it was at first.
“We didn’t know what we had after we discovered it,” Goodwill Industries of North Central Pennsylvania Social Media & PR Coordinator Jessica Illuzzi mentioned. “It got here in a field stuffed with random jewellery from the State School retailer. So it had already been processed by means of donations there.”
After they found what they’d, they had been surprised. Now, they’re hoping to maximise the donation by means of a web-based public sale.
“If it reaches the mark of $5,000, that will have been the very best quantity when it offered for it,” Smith mentioned. “That is very distinctive. You by no means know what you discover on shopgoodwill.com.”
Goodwill already acquired a bid for $33,000, however when the winner didn’t pay up, the merchandise was relisted.
“I feel it’s actually cool that there’s so few of them, but it surely’s additionally sort of cool to search out out the analysis behind it. After which the ultimate step is to search out the fitting collector to take that actually as soon as it,” Illuzzi mentioned.
The public sale has already reached over $4,000 and identical to LEGOs, the bids preserve stacking.