Adobe Illustrator page item list error

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Hi. Please can someone help me with the following if they have any experience scripting for Adobe Illustrator?

I’m trying to create a simple list of page items in AppleScript, but I keep getting this error:

Can’t make «class caPA» 1 of «class caLY» 1 of document 1 of application "Adobe Illustrator" into type vector.

Here is the simplified script:

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
	tell document 1
		set page_items to {}
		set This_page_item to page item 1
		set page_items to page_items & This_page_item
	end tell
end tell

The error happens on this line:

set page_items to page_items & This_page_item

All I’m trying to do is create a list containing page items from the document, but it seems Illustrator object references can’t be appended to a normal AppleScript list in the way I expected.

Am I misunderstanding how Illustrator page item references work in AppleScript, or is there a different way I should be building the list?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.