Nice Garage sale find

[StackerKen]

Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Man paid $45 at a California garage sale for 65 glass plates
Experts concluded negatives were lost Ansel Adams photos
Photos are a "missing link" in Adam's career
Adams was the "father of American photography."


http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/07/27/ansel.adams.discovery/index.html?hpt=C2

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

Here's why I would never snag a deal like this...

I would never bring myself to buy glass plates....My immediate thought is, what am I going to do with them, how am I going to store them?

That being said, Ansel Adams is very famous here in America, and for good reason:

http://jeffbean.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/ansel_adams_mountains.jpg

[joe_momma]

You've overlooked the key point -

Those glass plate negatives are Silver oxide!

[Ponce]

Yeah.........melt the plates and you will get $5.00 for its silver :oo-->