>>20370205Half-kilo homepourbro, is that you? Either way I'm happy to hear that your ration of karat gold is sufficient to keep you in the game, I haven't hit any garage or estate sales yet this year but the season is heating up so hopefully prospects (and finances) improve for us both.
>>20370309Yeah man, when I first peeled a weighted and reinforced and glass-lined sterling Duchin Creations shaker and saw how jewishly thin and crappy they were a lifelong hatred of everything stamped with their ignominious name was born. Thankfully those silberballs aren't weighted so although surely of modest mass they're all sterling. I appreciate the update on your antique silverware market, perhaps it's just a seasonal lull but then again the supply of 200+ year old spoons ain't growing so maybe they are becoming appreciably more scarce.
It's very good that you slurped all the antique material you could while it was more plentiful, as we've discussed I think the value and demand for that stuff will grow in the coming years, and I believe an important catalyst for those gains will be an instinctive collective pushback against all the fake inauthentic AI garbage which will make people hungry for unquestionably real physical authenticity in the form of quality art and hand-made antiques and historical objects. In a digital world full of hollow facades and meaningless consumption of mass-produced goods and fake experiences I believe people who aren't NPCs will really appreciate eating their dinner with a hand-made beautifully shiny .950 silver place setting that once graced the tables in the banquet halls of king Louis XV. In a fake shitty ugly ZOGgged world, having a connection with beauty and authenticity like that will be a priceless medicine for the human soul.
