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Our sales are Public Auctions, held always on
a
Monday
evening (7.00pm start, with viewing of larger lots from 3pm and smaller
lots from 5pm) at the Stewart's-Melville Club Pavilion, which is 650
metres
west from our shop, on the same road (Ferry Road). (See
maps.)
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The
auction venue
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The vast majority of lots come from third parties, for whom we are selling on commission.
To the pleasure of our customers, buyers are not faced with complicated invoices with numerous additional charges; there is a simple buyer's premium of 10% added to the price at which lots are knocked down (this includes value-added tax). There is no handling charge per lot or per invoice, nor is there any v.a.t. charged in addition to the knock-down price. What you pay is the price the hammer falls at plus 10%. Postal buyers are charged simply the cost of postage onto the price of their lots. There is no additional fee for the use of credit or debit cards (as long as postal buyers give their details at the time of making their bids).
Approximately every three months, one of our stamp auctions will have a much stronger Collectables section, which includes postcards, cigarette & trade cards, coins, medals, banknotes, and other categories.
Our charges for sellers are a commission of 10% of the sale price, plus administration fees of £1.10 per lot and £5.00 per vendor, all plus v.a.t. at 17.5%
Our full list of terms and conditions includes details of storage charges for any unsold lots which are not collected, as well as minimum charges for heavy and bulky lots, and charges for unsold lots where a reserve has not been initially agreed by us.
At most of our public auctions we also run a "Buy or Bid Sale" concurrently with the main sale. People bring things on the evening to include in the sale, and customers may either buy them outright or make bids. For the Buy or Bid sale we charge 25p per lot entry fee, plus 10% on any sales. Lots can be accepted in advance (with an entry fee of 25p or £1 per lot, depending on size).
If you would like to see our next auction catalogues (or our previous one), you should be able to view or download them by clicking below. Your software will probably prompt you to confirm that you want it. It will probably give you the option of either viewing the document or downloading it. It may also warn you about "dangerous material" - all we can say is that to the best of our knowledge there is nothing dangerous in our auction catalogues (except perhaps the temptation to spend money !). The auction catalogues do not look pretty - they are designed for publishing on paper, and only minor changes have been made to them to make them internet-accessable. They are either in .doc format ("microsoft word") or html.
** PAST AUCTION LISTINGS LISTED BELOW ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FOR INTEREST AND REFERENCE **
