$50 garage sale Ansel Adams plates valued US$200M

[gary]

Story in Sydney Morning Herald here -
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/how-50-garage-sale-buy-is-now-worth-223m-20100728-10vhz.html

[renormalised]

Lucky bugger!!!!!:eyepop::eyepop::eyepop:

Just goes to show you, you never know what you might run across.

[bojan]

My garage (and every other space in the house available) is already full with junk. And my ears are full of complaints from my ministry od internal affairs.
And I am still not rich...

[renormalised]

Don't worry, one day it'll happen:)

Gotta be optimistic:):)

[Octane]

Read about this earlier. What a lucky, lucky man to have original Adams glass plates. :sigh:

H

[Omaroo]

Wow.... how incredible. What an exhibition they'd make. Adams work was brilliant. :)

[ballaratdragons]

Of course they are worth millions!!! It's obvious. They are a decade older than when he bought them :rofl:

[ballaratdragons]

Matthew Adams of the Adams Gallery is disputing the authenticity of the plates: http://theanseladamsgallery.blogspot.com/

[Steffen]

Damn, I need to go to garage sales more often… :eyepop:

Cheers
Steffen.

[renormalised]

Most likely because he wants them and wants to buy them on the cheap. The oldest swindle in the book:)

[Benno18]

HAHAHAHA
"oh I will sell them back to you........ for 223 million. Authenticity? who cares i want 223 million....."

[nightstalker]

I thought this a pretty sus bit of tabloid reporting from the get go in that most of the provenance comes from the guy who decides what its value is ?

That really paints a pretty questionable picture . ( ;)). Kens link is a great read if you go through it .. wouldn't this guys family embrace
this miniscule addition to his known works if they thought it true ??

This $230 m on these 50 plates should value as a % his whole
portfolio well into the many billions shouldn't it ?

[wavelandscott]

I was laughing with my wife about this story last night. We lived in Fresno during the time the "yard sale" would have taken place. I've been known to buy "hidden treasures" (my wife calls it junk) like this was described to be. It could have been me!

I have no idea about the authenticity but the idea that you could find something like that is appealing...

[Ric]

Blimey, some days are coal and other days are diamonds.

Good on him