Sales catalogue: Stevens

Date:
13 November 1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/21/423
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONDITIONS OF SALE. First.—The highest bidder to be the buyer, and if any dispute arise between two or more bidders the lot ‘so disputed shall be immediately put up again and re-sold. The auctioneer reserves to himself the right to refuse any bid, also to make any alteration in the catalogue. SECOND.—No_ person to advance less than one shilling ; above £2, two shillings and sixpence ; and so on in proportion. THIRD.—The purchasers are to give in their names and places of abode, and, if required, to pay down a deposit of five shillings in the pound in part payment of the purchase-money, 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. FourtH.—The lots are to be taken away and paid for, with all faults and errors of description, at the buyer’s expense and risk, on the day immediately following sale. The auctioneer not being responsible for the correct description, genuineness or authenticity of, or any fault or defect in any lot, and making no warranty whatever. LastLy.—Upon failure of complying with the above conditions, the money deposited in part payment shall be forfeited to the vendors, the lots remaining uncleared shall be re-sold by public or private sale, and the de- ficiency (if any) attending such re-sale, together with all incidental expenses and charges, shall be made good by the defaulters at this sale. NO LOTS WILL BE TRANSFERRED. The Clerk of the Sale has authority to refuse Cheques. A CHARGE FOR WAREHOUSING WILL BE MADE ON LOTS NOT CLEARED PROMPTLY. Telephone :— Telegrams :— GERRARD 1824. AUKS, RAND, Lonpon,
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