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

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

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

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

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

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

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GUEST: Really?

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

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

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GUEST: I don't have
the slightest idea.

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

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

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GUEST: Mm-hmm.

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

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be $1,500.

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GUEST: Oh, wow, okay.

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

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

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GUEST: Mm-hmm.

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

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GUEST: Really? ...

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APPRAISER: on these now.

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

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APPRAISER: Yeah, they're
a beautiful presentation.

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