Sales catalogue: Woods

Date:
06 January 1916
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/24/220
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    CONDITIONS OF SALE. 1.—Subject to the auctioneer reserving to himself the right to bid on behalf of the vendors and of accepting or refusing any bidding, the highest bidder shall be the buyer, and if any dispute shall arise between two or more bidders, the lot so disputed shall be immediately put up again and resold at the option of the auctioneer. The auctioneer reserves the right to withdraw any lot from sale or to consolidate two or more lots, aad to be the sole arbitrator in all disputes. 2.—The purchasers to.give in their names and places of residence, if required, and pay down a deposit of 25 per cent. in part-payment of their purchase-money, if demanded, and in default of which the lot or lots so purchased may be immediately put up again and resold. 3.—No person to advance less than one shilling ; above £1, two shillings ; and so on in proportion, or as the auctioneer may direct. 4.—THE LOTS MUST BE CLEARED BY 4 O’CLOCK ON THE DAY AFTER THE SALE, with all faults and errors, at the pur- chaser’s expense, and the remainder of the purchase-money be paid to the clerk before delivery of any of the lots to the respective purchasers. No lots will be transferred. 5.—Each and every lot shall at the fall of the hammer be considered as delivered, and no lot or lots shall be removed until the whole of the purchaser’s account shall have been paid in full. As the whole is on view, no warranty is given or implied by the description in the catalogue. The auctioneers acting only as agents for the vendors shall not be considered personally responsible for any default on the part of either purchaser or vendors. 6.—The purchaser of any lot or lots will be held liable for any damage done to the premises by the careless removal of such lots, and the damage must be reinstated at the purchaser’s expense, to the satis- faction of the auctioneer. 7.—All lots are sold as laid or fixed, and must be removed by the purchasers at their own expense, and no other parts of the fixtures than those actually specified in the catalogue are to be removed or damaged. 8.—Ifany purchaser or purchasers shall neglect or fail to comply with the conditions above mentioned, the money deposited in part pay- ment shall be forfeited to the vendors, who shall be at full liberty to re-sell the said lot or lots by public or private sale, without any notice being given to the purchaser, and the deficiency (if any) by such second sale, together with all charges attending the same, shall be made good by the defaulter or defaulters at this present sale, who shall have no claim to any surplus. NO CHEQUES TAKEN.
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