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<p>[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 242135, member: 51"]If you wind up consigning these earrings, be absolutely sure the jeweler or consigner you use is an expert in jade.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Khl889 said earlier:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>You can look at an array of jades in a store display case and see prices ranging in many multiples; yet trying to figure out why and how prices differ so greatly is pretty much a mystery except to those in the field. Think of diamonds, much the same.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>If these happen to be very desirable jade (not my field), still thinking back to the plain jade ones under Ebay completed that sold for $700. I would never have guessed the value on those. It was possibly the color or something very subtle, so best to have an expert evaluate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Concur that these are much more interesting that the 20 pieces on the other post. A different level of quality to be sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also agree that someone wearing these would eventually want them polished, but my guess is that they are going to be purchased for the jade, not impossible someone might want them "untouched" so to speak. Maybe when you get around to having them evaluated, you can inquire what is best as far as polishing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 242135, member: 51"]If you wind up consigning these earrings, be absolutely sure the jeweler or consigner you use is an expert in jade. As Khl889 said earlier: [I]You can look at an array of jades in a store display case and see prices ranging in many multiples; yet trying to figure out why and how prices differ so greatly is pretty much a mystery except to those in the field. Think of diamonds, much the same. [/I] If these happen to be very desirable jade (not my field), still thinking back to the plain jade ones under Ebay completed that sold for $700. I would never have guessed the value on those. It was possibly the color or something very subtle, so best to have an expert evaluate. Concur that these are much more interesting that the 20 pieces on the other post. A different level of quality to be sure. Also agree that someone wearing these would eventually want them polished, but my guess is that they are going to be purchased for the jade, not impossible someone might want them "untouched" so to speak. Maybe when you get around to having them evaluated, you can inquire what is best as far as polishing.[/QUOTE]
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