I have 4 chairs. The one that is painted red on the back side does not have the Hermam miller logo on the bottom. It also used to have a leather seat cover that was so badly damaged I took it off. Still have it though.
All four chairs have the same la fonda legs, shock mounts. A few need new food glides. Three of the chairs have the Herman miller emblem, as well as a stamp with three dots inside, and numbers under the logo, which I am not sure as to what either the stamp or numbers mean. Please if you can give me a ball park figure as to what they may be worth. It would be much appreciated.
Thanks for your help.
Stamp on underside of Herman Miller la fonda chair
I continued to do research on other sights. I went into EamesDesigns and someone else had posted the image of this stamp. Mine was so unclear, it was hard to determine what it said to a new-bee. SUMMIT and then it appears to say "J 6"??
So I decided to share. If anyone can tell me what the "J 6" means that would be great!!
Thanks in advance.
Rather than give you the...
Rather than give you the price I hope this info will give you the tools to determine what your chairs are worth. In order to settle on a price you need to figure out what type of seller you might be and base your value on that....obviously because you are asking this question then I imagine your level is going to be general public selling nice thing level.
Go to ebay and see what range highest to lowest these are priced at. There will always be one or two mad figures but you should be able to spot an average. Try to figure out if there might be a difference in value due to colour / condition / age etc and see where your chairs lie in that sphere.
Beside the search box on ebay is the word "advanced"...do the same search again and then click advanced...tick the box for completed listings and click search. Now take note of any chairs that have actually sold and take note of their prices.
Then create an account on Live auctioneers and do a search for your chairs and again look in their "sold" section. This time take note of what price the items made but more importantly check the year in which the sale occured and work out if the price graph is on the rise, evened out or falling.
With the auction prices you have to take in to account that the seller paid fees to the auction house, maybe 20 - 25% so dont forget to factor that in to your calculations. Also the auction method quite often leaves a seller waiting a few months minimum to get any money so that needs to be factored in too.
Take all the info you have and decide do you want to sell quickly or slowly. Leave some profit in them to draw in dealers if you want quick money and maybe list them on craigslist / ebay or go for as much as you can get by listing them at the top end of your figure on ebay / design radar / or through a good auction house.
If it turns out that your version of the chair are the holy grail of all chairs then dont forget to write your listings entirely in CAPS and then put a massive price with lots of zeros on it.
Finally...dont waste your time looking at 1stdibs, you cannot achieve those prices if you dont have a well regarded shop.
I hope this helps,
Killian.
Thank you so much for your help on iding my chairs, and
it most definitely will come in handy in figuring out how to price my chairs. I have been doing lots of research on these chairs, as I was going to put them on the curb side for anyone to take...looking closer at them and realizing they were worth more then I thought.
Thanks again for all of those who answered my questions.
Ann
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