Antique shopper Rick Norsigian paid $45 back in 2000 for 65 glass negatives that he bought at a yard sale in southern California. The man who sold him the negatives said he got them at a salvage warehouse in Los Angeles. It turns out the negatives are the works of the famed photographer Ansel Adams and worth at least $200 million! Art appraisal expert David W. Streets believes the photos were taken between 1919 and the early 1930s, long before Adams became nationally recognized in the 1940s. Norsigian, who has spent the last decade trying to prove the worth of his discovery, is now ready to cash in by selling original prints of the photographs to museums and collectors.
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