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Originally Posted by Sydney Morning Herald"
An American collector has become an overnight multimillionaire after a set of 65 glass negatives he picked up at a garage sale turned out to be genuine Ansel Adams works.
Rick Norsigian, a school district painter and collector, bought the photographic plates in Fresno, California for $US45 ($A50) a decade ago. Now they have been authenticated and are valued at $US200 million ($A223m), he told a press conference.
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Story in Sydney Morning Herald here -
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/...728-10vhz.html