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No current posted sales.Garage Sale Buyer Pays $45 For $200,000,000 Ansel Adams Photo Collection
This is how you go garage sale shopping, folks! Rick Norsigian, an American collector, bought a set of 65 glass negatives at a garage sale in Fresno, CA. He paid $45 dollars.
The purchase took place a decade ago. During the following ten years the negatives were properly authenticated and have been given a value of $200 million dollars.
"The experts have emphatically determined that the negatives were in fact created by the iconic photographer Ansel Adams," said Norsigian, who also released the findings on his website.
Ansel Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park. Some of his work can be seen at his online gallery.
I know what you're thinking. This would never happen to me when I go out garage sale shopping! But don't give up hope! You don't have to be an antique dealer to find things of value at garage sales. My best tip is to simply find something that appeals to you and make a good offer on it. It may not turn out to be a $200 million dollar photo negative collection, but you have to start somewhere!
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In the Comments: If you made a $200 million dollar find at a garage sale, would that be your last garage sale ever, or would you continue to search for more "buried treasure"?
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