GUEST: I inherited these from
my parents, who had inherited
them from my great-grandparents.

APPRAISER: They're
magnificent pieces of
jade. Really beautiful,
nice color. And they're

actually, they're very, very
typically 18th century, in terms
of the quality of the carving,

and the stands, particularly.
But they're not-- they were
actually made probably between

1880 and 1890. And particularly,
because of the color of that
piece of jade, that material

was only found in, like,
Siberia in the 1870s.

GUEST: Really?

APPRAISER: So it wasn't
available before that
period of time. But
the carving is top, top

quality. Do you know what they
paid for them at the time?

GUEST: I don't have
the slightest idea.

APPRAISER: Yeah, because by
that age, the price in, like,
the 1920s on something like

this, in a good shop, would've
been even $4,000 to $6,000.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

Then, after the Second World
War, the price on things like
this, the pair of them, would

be $1,500.

GUEST: Oh, wow, okay.

APPRAISER: And now with the
Chinese buying back their own
material, and particularly

with a fixation about
jade, they're looking
for things like this.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: And conservatively,
the value at auction would be
between $30,000 to $50,000...

GUEST: Really? ...

APPRAISER: on these now.

GUEST: Wow. Well, I've
always loved them, and...

APPRAISER: Yeah, they're
a beautiful presentation.

GUEST: The carvings have always
mesmerized me as a child.