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Price: With the exception of the small pieces in the lower right photo (typically $5 to $15 each), most specimens are priced in the $40 to $150 range. Larger specimens (not shown) are costly and are a few hundred dollars. The malachite ashtray (lower left photo) sold for $120.
The record price for a single piece of jadeite jewelry was set at the November 1997 Christies Hong Kong sale: Lot 1843, the Doubly Fortunate necklace of 27 approximately 15 mm jadeite beads, sold for US$9.3 million (see figure 25).