Sales catalogue: Cheffins & Slocombe

Date:
24 June 1904
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/24/11
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Cheffins & Slocombe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONDITIONS: OF “SALE: FIRST— The highest bidder to be the purchaser, and if any dispute arise between two or more bidders, the lot so disputed shall, upon the decision of the auctioneers, be immediately put up again and re-sold, which shall be a final settlement of any disputed lot. The auctioneers reserve to themselves the right to refuse any bidding they please, and of altering or withdrawing any of the lots. SECOND.—No person to advance less than ts., above two pounds 2s.,and so on in proportion. THIRD.—In the case of lots upon which there is a reserve the auctioneers snall have the right to bid on behalf of the owner. FOURTH—tThe contract for sale to be deemed in all cases as made exclusively with the auctioneers, and the payment made to themonly. _ FIFTH.—The purchasers are to give in their names and places of abode, and to pay down a deposit of 5s. in the £, or more, in part payment, or the whole of the purchase as a deposit on a single lot only, but to ride over all lots purchased by the same buyer; in default of which the lot or lots so purchased to be put up again and re-sold at any convenient opportunity during the sale or otherwise. SIXTH.—If any person purchase more than one lot, they shall be deemed one entire purchase between such person and the auctioneers, and no lot or portion of a lot shall be demanded for delivery by any purchaser before the purchase-money be paid for the whole of his or her lots. SEVENTH.—-The lots are to be paid for, taken, and removed, whether genuine and authentic or not, immediately after the sale, with all faults and errors of description, at the expense of the purchasers; the auctioneers not being responsible for the correct description, genuine- ness or authenticity of, or any fault or detect in any lot and making no warranty whatever. EIGHTH.—To prevent inaccuracy in delivery and incor venience in the settlement of the purchases, no lot can on any account be removed during the time of sale and the remainder of the purchase-money must absolutely be paid on delivery. LASTLY.—Upon failure of complying with the above conditions the money deposited in part payment shall be forfeited to the auctioneers, the lots remaining uncleared shall be re-sold by public or private sale, and the deficiency (if any) attending such re-sale, together with all incidental expenses and charges, shall be made good by the defaulters at this sale and be recoverable by the auctioneers accordingly.
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