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1. Ansel Adams rarities (or not.) At a garage sale in 2000, a Fresno, California, house painter noticed images of Yosemite National Park on glass plates of old photo negatives. After some negotiation, Rick Norsigian bought the lot for $45.
The teapot is only the seve nth example of Bartlam porc elain to have been rediscovered. The other six pieces are all in the US, held in both private collections and museums.
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He had a hunch the images were by the iconic nature photographer Ansel Adams, so Norsigian asked some experts. They told him he was right — and that his find could be worth more than $200 million.
