it would be a decent thing to do
other wise i bet they feel like slashing their wrists
That’s a lot of capital gains taxes.
I’m sure that Bamster and Crew will be expecting their “Voluntary Donation” or else arrest the poor guy for 10 years of unreported income.
So any Ansel Adams foundation or heir does not own them? Interesting
At a yard estate sale I rescued dozens of WWII letters from a military locker that someone else had purchased. He didn’t want to keep the letters & the sellers were going to dump them. They were love letters between a captain and his wife, from 1942 to 1945.
They are now in the Library of Congress.
$200 million for a collection of Ansel Adams negative plates?? IMPOSSIBLE.
Please be aware that that quote is probably from the auctioneer who hopes to sell them (with a 15%-20% commission)
There is a question as to their authenticity. Apparently some of the sites are misspelled and the numbering system is different. This according to the current story on msn.com
$3,000,000 a negative?
Even at $2,000 a print from a negative, do they really expect to sell 1,500 inferior prints by some technician (not the artist) long after his death?
For 65 different images?
The press sure loves hyperbole.
He should pay Captain Kerry’s boat tax.
When I was 23, my mom and I went to a garage sale; I pickup up two wooden boxes for $20 ea. I also got the lady there to come down from $22 each.
I completely forgot I even had them until my mom moved from AZ to ID. She found them in the attic. So, at 65, I decided it was long past time to open them!
When I opened them....one was full of toe nail clippings and the other was full of plastic tips for shoe strings.
Not worth $2MM, you say!
Fie upon the lot of you!
Just a ruse to avoid the inheritance tax.