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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.