/biz/ - Business & Finance

Idk what happened, but there is near zero XVIIIth c. french silverware hitting the ebay marketplace for 3 months now.
One just got listed few hours ago, and there are already a dozen bidders on it, with 7 days left..

Sometimes i go full schitzo and wonder if it is because i slurped too hard, too fast, for the first half of the year, and literally dried up the offer.
Honestly, it's very hard to know the market's depths for this kind of items.. like, how one would determine how many 250-300yo frog silver forks/plates/spoons still are existing to this day and ready to be sold?
I only bought around one hundred of those, surely this is only a tiny fraction of what exist, but what if it was a much larger proportion of what remained *availible* for sale (at low prices, because i guess i can go on Tiffany and various richfag auction houses and find plenty)?