Lot 2155: Hugo Robus (1885-1964), women embracing, Alva Studios composite case, 24cm

STANDARD CONDITIONS OF SALE

1. The highest bidder, subject to the Vendor's reserve (if any) to be the purchaser and if any dispute arises between two or more bidders, the lot in dispute is to be immediately put up again and resold.

2. The advance in the biddings is to be regulated by the Auctioneers, who are to be sole arbiters in any matter of dispute, and no person is to retract a bidding. The Auctioneers reserve the right to themselves of withdrawing from, consolidating or dividing any lot or lots, of varying the order of sale or of accepting or refusing the bidding of any person as they may think fit.

3. The purchasers must give their names and place of abode and (if required) to pay down 25% in part payment of the purchase money, in default of which the lot or lots so purchased to be immediately put up again and resold.

4. As this auction is made on condition of prompt payment, the purchase/money, or the remainder, is to absolutely paid on or before the delivery of any lot. No lot can be transferred and no cheque will be taken from any person unknown to the Auctioneer unless satisfactory references are given.

5. Purchasers shall have no right to avail themselves of any set-off or other plea against the Auctioneer or the Vendor for non-payment of their purchase money.

6. The Auctioneers act as agents only. Each lot as set out in the catalogue, or as divided or joined with any lot or lots at the sole discretion of the Auctioneers, is sold with all faults, imperfections and errors of description and the lots shall be at the purchaser's risk immediately once they are sold. Neither the Vendor nor the Auctioneers are responsible for the authenticity, attribution, genuineness, origin, authorship, date, age, period, condition or quality of any lot. All statements in the catalogue as to any of such matters are statements of opinion and are not to be taken as, or as implying, statements or representation of fact. Purchasers are deemed to have satisfied themselves by inspection or otherwise as to all such matters and as to the physical description of any lot. Neither the Vendor nor the Auctioneers to make or give, nor has any person in the employment of the Auctioneers any authority to make or give, any representation or warranty, and in any event neither the Vendor nor the Auctioneers are responsible for any representation or warranty or for any statement in the catalogue. If one person purchases two or more lots the prices of all must be paid before the delivery of any.

7. No lot is to be taken away during the time of sale, and no lot must on any account whatever be taken away unless delivered by the person appointed for this purpose, nor without a delivery ticket signed by the Auctioneers or their clerk.

8. Every person whilst on the premises before, during, or after the sale shall be deemed to be there at his own risk, and no person shall make or have any claim against the Vendor or the Auctioneers in respect of any injury he may sustain or accident, which may happen.

9. The purchasers will be held responsible for any damage to the premises or occasioned to adjoining lots in the course of the removal of any lots they may have bought (principals being held accountable for the acts of their agents).
LASTLY upon failure to comply with the above conditions the money so deposited in part payment shall be forfeited, the lot or lots not cleared within the specified time shall be resold by public or private sale, and the deficiency (if any) together with all charges attending the same shall be made good by the defaulters at this sale. Every purchaser or person at this sale is expected to acquaint himself with the foregoing conditions and the fact of a purchaser or person bidding at this sale shall be accepted as a tacit consent to abide by, observe and agree to such foregoing conditions.

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