Sales catalogue: A. Percy Osborne

Date:
16 February 1916
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/24/242
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: A. Percy Osborne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONDITIONS OF SALE. 1.—The highest bidder is to be the purchaser, and no person shall retract a bidding. Should any dispute arise between two or more bidders the lot in dispute shall be offered again and re-sold or not at the discretion of the auctioneer. 2.—lhe advance in the biddings to be regulated by the auctioneer, who shall be the sole arbitrator in any matter of dispute. He also reserves to himself the right to refuse any bidding. 5.—The purchaser to give in his or her name and address, and each and every purchaser (if required) to pay a deposit of five shillings in the pound as part payment, and any deposit so paid shall apply to the whole or any of the lots of such buyers. 4.—-All lots to be at the sole risk and expense of the purchasers from the fall of the hammer, and no lot or lots can be removed until the whole amount of the purchaser’s account shall be paid in full, and payment is only to be made to the person appointed to deliver. 5.—The lots must be paid for and cleared away from the premises with all faults, imperfections and errors of description before 4 o’clock on Thursday, 17th February, and the whole of the lots having been on view no warranty is given or to be implied by the description in the catalogue, and no allowance whatever shall be made for mis-description or errors of what- soever nature. Any damage caused by the removal or otherwise must be made good or paid for by the person committing the same, principals being considered responsible for the acts of their servants. 6.—The auctioneer reserves the right of withdrawal or of placing two or more lots together, should that course be considered advisable, and the vendors reserve the right to bid by themselves or their agent. 7.—Any lots not cleared by the appointed time, in accordance with the conditions, shall be forfeited and may be re-sold either by auction or private treaty at the expense of the purchaser, any deficiency arising from such re-sale shall be made good by him or her, as the case may be. Lasrity.—On failure of complying with the above conditions or non-performance of all or any part of them, the defaulters will lose their deposits, and the auctioneer, without reference to any delivering of the lot or lots other than the delivery by the fall of the hammer, shall be at liberty to take such steps as may be deemed necessary. and all loss and expenses shall devolve upon the defaulters at the sale. Special attention is directed to the 5th Condition. A. PERCY OSBORNE, Auctioneer. N.B.—_NO CHEQUES TAKEN.