This is the picture from the mark and if you guys can please tell me about a fair market price for it? I saw one on online for 2300 but Iām not sure if thatās a fair price
My personal opinion is that itās too expensive. Check online and see what else you can find by them and see what the asking prices are. Then check eBay and see what the sold prices are. Are you buying from a gallery or just online?
From what Iām seeing, ASKING prices Robert & Bernice Leekya bracelets are all over from $750 to $3300. For the size you show, $750 to $950 seems to be the average asking price. Worth it? Only you can answer that. Depends upon how badly you have to have it. Good luck. I would first try to see what they have actually sold for first. That would be the true price.
I canāt find any other piece like this except the one I saw on eBay for 2300 thousand. Iām really tempted, but not sure if itās real, because Iāve read that there are so many pieces that had been replicated with imported pieces that sell as real because they even fake the stamp.
Thatās a lot of $ for something that youāre not sure about. Seems high to me. Do they have any kind of return policy? I would never spend that if I wasnāt 100% sure. @Jason do you have any thoughts about this piece and the price?
Impossible to absolutely authenticate without a solid paper trail or provenance, but this has all the characteristics of original Leekya work, and none of the characteristics one would usually pick up from offshore work. My impression is you likely have an authentic piece here.
$2300 is, letās say, exceedingly optimisticāin that nobody would pay that, or has ever paid that much. At auction a bracelet like this has sold for in the 200-$300s. Liveauctioneers.com requires signing up (free) to see sold listings, but as examples (liveauctioneers and ebay 2 days ago):
Obviously, size and weight and perceived quality, plus just personal interest, factor into pricing. Can it go higher? Sure, but with a limit.
A great example of how radically inexpensive even really well made Native American Jewelry currently is compared to current market prices of even the raw materials and labor used in hand fabricating these items. $270 would be well below materials and labor costs to make anything close to the quality of this bracelet. All things being equal, if this were any other category fair retail value for a handmade piece like this would be well justified at $2,300, but the reality is, as @chicfarmer has pointed out, these items are often still selling at āfire saleā prices because internet resale vendors often donāt have a clue as to what they actually have.
I just watched a video where Reggie Mitchell was selling his jewelry, and his son stated that some stones they bought the previous year had doubled in price (and the video is a couple years old). I know that I pay more at the art market, but I love actually purchasing from the artist for the price they feel is fair. I also donāt mind paying more (even though that means I can buy less) at some of the good stores out west, because coming from a family that had a small business, I like helping actual physical businesses. But if I bought something online from some random eBay/Etsy seller I would have NO qualms looking for the cheaper price. So I wouldnāt pay $2300 for this cuff.
Thank you very much!!