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Terms and Conditions for Buying at Auction

The Auctioneers reserve the right of bidding for, withdrawing, consolidating or dividing any lots, or varying the order of sale. The highest accepted Bidder, subject to the Vendor’s reserve (if any) to be the purchaser. If any dispute should arise between 2 or more bidders, the lot in dispute to be immediately re-offered and re-sold, the Auctioneers to be sole arbitrator in all matters of dispute. Bidding. All prospective purchasers, whether bidding in person, by proxy or by Absentee Bidding Form, are required to provide full contact details, (names, telephone number, address and postcode) prior to bidding and it is the prospective purchasers duty to contact the Auctioneers to ascertain if they were successful or not. All lots lie at the Purchaser’s risk immediately they are sold. The Auctioneers act as agents only. Each lot as set out in the catalogue (or as divided or joined at the time of sale) is sold with all faults and imperfections and neither the Vendor nor the Auctioneers are responsible for the condition or quality of any lot. All statements given within catalogue descriptions are not to be taken as, or as implying, statements or representations of fact. Purchasers are deemed to have satisfied themselves by personally inspecting or otherwise as to all such matters and as to the physical description of any lot. Neither the vendors nor the Auctioneers nor any person in the employment of the Auctioneers have any authority to make or give any representation or warranty as to the foregoing. Any Condition Reports are given as a matter of personal opinion only and as such form no part of any representation or warranty. Catalogue descriptions. If, whilst cataloguing the Auctioneers notice substantial and obvious faults, the symbol denoting that fault will be included within the catalogue description i.e. (f) faults, (b) beetle, (w) worm or® restoration. This must not be construed that any lots not so marked are without faults and prospective purchasers must satisfy themselves as to the true condition. Descriptions in inverted commas i.e. silver and Mahogany indicate only a likeness and are not subject to our Guarantee. All sizes are approximate. The internationally accepted system for indicating authenticity is used for cataloguing pictures applies. If in doubt please enquire further. Denham’s Guarantee. Every item offered for sale has been carefully identified by the Auctioneers and the catalogue description represents our unbiased opinion as to the true description of that lot. Subject to any amendments made from the time the catalogue is published and any amendments made at the time of sale, the Auctioneers, on behalf of the vendors, will undertake to reimburse in full, the purchase price including teh premium of any lot that can be shown by the purchaser to be incorrectly described as to material, age or attribution; (that is to say place of manufacture, period, style, artist etc) so as to substanstiallyaffect the value of the article, provided that it is returned to the auctioneers within 5 days of the date of the sale, in the same condition as at the time of the sale. Payment. All lots are subject to a Buyer’s Premium of 12 % + vat, payable on the Hammer Price. Payment is accepted by cash, sterling cheque (covered by an accompanying Bankers card), travelers cheque (with appropriate identification), debit card (Switch/Solo/Visa Debit/Electron) or credit card (Visa/Mastercard). Credit card payments only are subject to a 3% surcharge on the Invoice total e.g. Hammer Price £100 + £12.00 Buyer’s Premium + £2.10 VAT – Invoice Total £114.10p, if paid by Credit card will be £114.1 + 3% = £117.53p. All goods must be paid for in full, prior to being cleared. Clearing. No clearing is allowed whilst the sale is in progress (subject to the Auctioneers discretion on small, single item lots). Items may be cleared on the day of sale until 5.30pm or 1 hour following the end of the sale, whichever is the later. Clearing may also take place on the Thursday and Friday following the sale between 9am and 5pm and Saturday morning following the sale 9am – 12 noon. Any Invoices remaining unpaid & uncleared after 12 noon, the Saturday following the sale will be liable to a storage charge of £1.00 per lot per week or part thereof. In cases where part of a lot is removed by a Purchaser and a part left at the sale room, the Auctioneers reserve the right to dispose of the goods after 3 working days following the sale, without further reference to the Purchaser. Attendance and/or bidding at the sale shall be deemed to indicate full and irrevocable acceptance of the above conditions and any other conditions printed, displayed by notice in the Auction Galleries or expressed verbally before, during or at the time of sale. Click to Close