Where do you get your material?

Elizabeth in California wanted to know “How we get such amazing material to offer to our clients?”  At Chipeta Trading we work extremely hard to bring the best collectable historic Native Arts to the market today.  Many of the items come from our personal collection and over time our tastes change and we then deaccession pieces and make them available to the collecting public.  In regards to vintage jewelry, we have spend years building important relationships with experts in the field who bring us the best of the best!  We have no inventory on consignment and pay for everything at the time of purchase.   That puts us in a very unique position where we are offered the highest quality vintage Navajo and Pueblo silver and turquoise jewelry.   From time to time we also purchase estate collections and selected items of with importance provenance.   We choose very carefully to insure the highest quality in the market today!