SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) -- When Ray Rhinehart's mother passed away, he decided to donate her collection of porcelain dolls to the Discovery Shop in Santa Monica, a thrift store run by the American Cancer Society.
About a month or so later, he received an unexpected call back.
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"I got a phone call saying, we found an envelope in one of the boxes of the dolls, and there seems to be a lot of money in it," Rhinehart said. "And I said "Oh really." And it turned out to be quite a bit of money. Not $30 or $40, but $30,000."
The money discovered totaled $36,000 once it was all counted.
Ray thanked the people at the Discovery Shop.
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Money from their sales, like everything at the Discovery Shop, goes to cancer research.
As for the dolls, they were donated to an orphanage.