He continued: “Its association with dated something 1875 would indicate it’s possible that it is a late 19th Century imperial jade seal rather than an 18th Century jade seal.
It was then time for the appraisal itself: “If the jade book leaves came up at auction, I think the shared consensus is that they are imperial or certainly very likely to be imperial.
Among them was a woman who brought in two jade tablets and a jade seal that belonged to her great-great grandmother in California.
“So it may have been a jade-paged book and they’re incised with official script and the seal, again, is green jade, surmounted with a double dragon and a cord.
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