The Strand once published a jade specimen worth exactly one fat man

In 1897, — the London monthly best known as the home of Sherlock Holmes — published a photograph of a polished green jade specimen under the heading “The Price of a Man.” The caption described it as “of very considerable interest, not only on account of its beauty as a fine specimen of the green jad…

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