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kdog · 07-27-2010, 03:06 PM

Imagine buying some old glass negatives at a garage sale for $45 which turned to be Ansel Adams originals, now worth $200 million.

Experts: Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million - CNN.com

Ok, gotta run. I'm off to find some garage sales!

michmoldman · 07-27-2010, 03:59 PM

Imagine being the one who let them go for $45! Im also off to some garage sales.

Bydand · 07-27-2010, 04:33 PM

Wow, I guess I go to the wrong Garage sales. I usually find $45 items that are worth $10.

WFW&P · 07-27-2010, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Bydand

Wow, I guess I go to the wrong Garage sales. I usually find $45 items that are worth $10.

Lol! Me too! I think its a rare item then later find out 1 billion were made.

raven302 · 07-29-2010, 05:56 AM

Holy smokes!

mathjak107 · 07-29-2010, 06:02 AM

just imagine how the folks who sold it for 45.00 bucks feel......

pic-chic · 07-31-2010, 09:00 AM

They're not likely to be Ansel Adams'. The report from the lawyer is laughable as far as an analysis goes. It merely contains opinions with no facts to back them up. One supposed "expert" states that because Adams took a picture of a certain tree that he therefore took the other picture of the same tree. Absurd.
I hope people are not taken by this. The prints these people are selling are not worth anywhere close to what they're selling them for. An Adams print is worth something because he did the printing (or at least the interpretation in the case of the Alan Ross prints from his negatives).

Bydand · 07-31-2010, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by pic-chic

They're not likely to be Ansel Adams'. The report from the lawyer is laughable as far as an analysis goes. It merely contains opinions with no facts to back them up.

You might try reading the entire article. Particularly the 4th paragraph:

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Ansel Adams Negatives.
Art, forensic, handwriting and weather experts teamed up to conclude the 65 glass plates in the boxes were photographic negatives created more than 80 years ago by Ansel Adams, the iconic American photographer whose images of the West inspired the country.

motordavid · 07-31-2010, 01:16 PM

Much conjecture on the validity...
the best snippet I read suggested that there were
few of Adams's good to great negs that did not get
made into prints. Fwiw:
Ansel Adams Slides Could Just Be From Uncle Earl | NBC San Diego