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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 214587, member: 25&quot;]My limited experience with large numbers of a scarce item is that however they are sold, dealers soon realise that there are an abnormal number coming up for sale and start to worry about a hoard somewhere. The usual reaction is to gossip about it, and steer clear till the situation clarifies.Once a big stash is suspected, prices drop rapidy, but they usually recover to some middle level once the flood seems to be over.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know nothing about beer bottles, and most of the stuff I do know about does not come in multiples, but if for example I found a hoard of normally scarce banknotes, I&#039;d not want to pay more than about 10% - 20% of the current general retail value per item because I know that either I can sell a couple a year forever,&nbsp; and my heirs and assigns long after my death, or I could put the whole lot on the market at an appropriate auction and if possible take a modest profit at once. Once the quantity available is known, the market stabilises at a lower figure as buyers who previously could not afford an example snap up the avalable ones at a markedly lower price.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ten years later the market has assimilated the brief surge, the notes go back to being scarce as only the occasional collector sale is availble, and individual prices are back to where they were in the first place or higher.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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