Man buys box of Ansel Adams glass negatives for $45 at garage sale

[talesofthesevenseas]

Never give up the treasure hunt!!!
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-ansel-adams-prints,0,2910333.story

[Dean Perdue]

All I ever find at garage sales is clothes and junk.
Some people have all the luck on these things.

[cogar]

Dean, you might be surprised at what gets carried out of the house for you to see if you ask the right questions.

[D&b antiques]

 :)A smart shopper. alway's look's in the junk box's first. then ask do you have thing else.

[railman44]

Everybody should hit a home run once in a great while.

[D&b antiques]

I think we had some question's,about Ansel'swork in our Archive's. could be mistaken tho.

[talesofthesevenseas]

Heck, I still get excited when I find a wheat penny!!!

[D&b antiques]

I can add to that Tales. I was stopping at a dumpster, to toss some trash there was a guy' ahead of me. with a puzzled look on his face. he turned to me & said do you want these ? he had a mixed bag of about 500 wheat pennies, he intended to throw away.

No explanation as too why. I offered to buy them. he would except no money. I still have them.

[talesofthesevenseas]

Wow, that's really cool D&B! Every now and then someone does something really nice like that. When I was a kid, I used spend a lot of time playing in my friend's attic playroom. One of the things up there was her grandmother's Victrolla. When they were moving, she told us we could take our pick of the toys and I jokingly said I'd take the Victrolla and we laughed over it. But then she very quietly went downstairs and asked her mother if she could give it to me. Mom said yes and I still have it. It still plays just great.

[cogar]

Years n' years ago when working in Phila I would have coffee bout every day with two technicians which we would purchase said from a vendor cart that plied the hallway at break time. Those two were always checking the coins they got in change for their “collection” so I joined in and started collecting also. One morning early an older Draftsman who I was quite friendly with popped into my office and laid 4 rolls of pennies on my desk and said “there”. They had dirty orange wrappers on them like I had never seen before so I figured there must be a few “good” pennies in them so I asked “how much”. He replied “two dollars, wtatta ya think I want for them”.

Well now, he sure did like me. When I had finished inserting them into my two (2) almost empty “penny” books there was only 8 or 9 empty holes left. There was even a 1909 SVDB in the bunch.

[KC]

FUn!

We just went through another crate of boxes we got from the family cabin we sold years ago and found a large box full of coins in collectors books, coins in bags, coins in envelopes.  We also found a box of books of stamps collected, envelopes crammed full of stamps....don't know if I will live long enough to ever go through all of them!!!!!!

[talesofthesevenseas]

Here's an update on this story first posted here last October- Looks like these negatives have been authenticated as Ansell Adams:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/07/27/ansel.adams.discovery/index.html?hpt=C1