Genuine Crocodile Alligator leather handbags are handmade on the workbench in Granada, Nicaragua in Central America by Salas Enterprise as a C.I.T.I.E.S. government licensed crocodile alligator skin workshop and exporter and importer that only uses certified crocodile and alligator skins.

 

Salas Enterprise is certified in Switzerland by the Convention of Endangered Species; the Department of Marine of Nicaragua; and the United States Department of Agriculture to comply of all international laws to protect natural wildlife.

 

Why are crocodile alligator skin such an expensive leather? All crocodile alligator skins are controlled as an endangered animal and farm raised crocodiles must be feed fish or chickens to grow. Normally a natural 4 foot crocodile skin costs about $1,000.00 at the wholesale auction houses. This means that the skin more or less costs about $20.00 per square inch for your product.

 

Additionally, a company like Hermes in Paris, France sells a typical Kelly Handbag starting from $12,000.00 to $100,000.00 depending on the size of the Kelly handbag. For example, the small miniature Kelly handbags only use 1/2 if the skin of a four foot animal. The small handbag is then wetted and the skin cut to be wrapped unto a wooden mould that will cause the skin to take the general shape of the handbags. As you can see the making of your Kelly Alligator handbag is labor intensive and requires skilled craftsmen to complete the purse.

 

All crocodile alligator handbags are handmade because machines cannot be designed to work with a wet animal skin to shape the wet leather into a usable shape...remember that crocodile alligator skin has scales. This labor intensive work usually cost more than $350.00 for a small bag. In the case of Hermes in Paris their labor costs are over $2,000.00 per bag. When you add solid gold, diamond encrusted padlock closures you will find Hermes charging over $40,000.00 for the crocodile Kelly Handbags. At Salas Enterprise in Granada, Nicaragua which is complaint to C.I.T.I.E.S. certification it is also labor certified and pays benefits to native craftsmen. however, our overhead costs are much lower than the European designer workshops that make crocodile alligator handbags and purses.

 

SALAS Enterprise is a designer company and all our products are handcrafted in Granada using fine exotic leathers (Alligator, Caiman and Python) for the development and production of handbags, belts, wallets, passport covers and backpacks made from genuine exotic Alligator, Caiman and Python leather skins.

 

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