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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tagsale_notes, post: 13148816, member: 115485&quot;]David, that link is a good catch and it is worth pulling apart, because those two numbers are not the same kind of number.</p><p><br /></p><p>What Cisco&#039;s is showing you is an ask. I pulled their whole quirt collection this afternoon: 12 pieces, $2,500 to $15,000. The part that tells the story is not the prices, it is the dates. Their own storefront still has every one of the 12 listed as available, and the listing dates go back a long way. The Crow Antler Quirt at $3,000 went up 30 Sep 2016. The Pair of Crow Quirts at $5,500 went up in May 2018. Five more, including the $7,500 Northern Plains and the $2,500 Nez Perce, went up in Feb 2022. So that is a shelf, not a market. A gallery can carry a piece for ten years at $3,000 and it costs them nothing to keep the number up.</p><p><br /></p><p>The sold side, same afternoon, eBay closed listings, last 90 days, searching Native American quirt:</p><p><br /></p><p>Native American North Plains Wood Tacked Quirt, $138.50, 15 Sep 2026, auction</p><p>Vintage Nakota Elk Horn Quirt, $195.00, 16 Aug 2026</p><p>Native American Quirt ca. early 1900, $225.00, 30 Jun 2026</p><p>Prison Made Hitched Horsehair Quirt, $298.95, 2 Jul 2026</p><p>Dance stick / quirt, powwow regalia, $27.00, 11 Jul 2026</p><p><br /></p><p>Range $27 to $298.95, median $195, five sales in three months. I also ran antler quirt on its own and got zero closed sales in 90 days, which is its own signal: the antler ones are thin enough on eBay that they do not really trade there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Two things I would not skip over though. Cisco&#039;s pieces are catalogued to a tribe with the beadwork and the pictorial etching still on them, and that documentation plus intact beadwork is most of what a four figure number is buying. Yours lost its beadwork at that hole komokwa spotted. And the real midpoint for a documented one is probably neither of these, it is what they hammer for at the Plains Indian art sales, High Noon in January and the Allard auctions. Those publish past results and it is free to look. If you ever want to know where yours actually sits, that is where I would read it, not the gallery tags.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still says you did fine at $60.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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