Documents/ 文件下载
Every form you sign before bidding, plus the season’s conditions and fee tables. They are reissued with the final catalogue and handed out at the preview desk.
Bidding guides/ 3 documents
Read this set first: the paddle, the room, the hammer, the invoice and the collection.
Conditions of sale/ 3 documents
Collecting a paddle means you have accepted these terms. Room, online and bonded lots each carry their own set — take the one that matches how you bid.
- PDF Conditions of sale — room Taking a paddle means you have read this. Download
- PDF Conditions of sale — online These sit alongside the room conditions; a click is a paddle. Download
- PDF Conditions of sale — bonded lots Lots marked bonded sit in a customs-supervised warehouse and leave differently. Download
Forms and authorisations/ 5 documents
For anyone not in the room. Print, sign by hand, photograph and return to the desk 24 hours before the sale; a company seal must go out as an original.
- PDF Telephone bid authorisation Complete, sign and return with identification at least twenty-four hours before the session. Download
- PDF Bid authorisation — individual to individual For one private bidder sending another person to the room. Download
- PDF Bid authorisation — company to agent For institutional bidding carried out by an employee; seal it and attach the licence copy. Download
- PDF Collection authorisation Present with both identity documents at the loading bay. Download
- PDF Tax payment confirmation Where import tax is paid on your behalf; it fixes what the money is and who keeps the receipts. Download
Rules and fees/ 2 documents
How the buyer's premium is worked out, when it is reduced, and which clauses cause the most argument.
Client plans/ 1 document
Register once and the catalogues, the fee plan and the sale notices follow your account from then on.
Where these papers come from/ 这些文件从哪来
What a sale leaves behind is paper. The catalogue records each lot’s size, provenance and estimate; the conditions fix who carries what after the hammer; the confirmation names the paddle and the price; the fee table says how the premium is built. All four, and only then has an object changed hands.
Each is reissued when a season’s catalogue closes, with the revision in the page header. Older editions stay downloadable, so a premium on an old confirmation can still be checked against the table it was charged from.
The documents listed here are demonstration copies — clause numbers and contact details are placeholders. Replace them from the admin before the season opens.
Not on this list · A condition report on one lot, a missing page from a session catalogue, the record of a past sale — write and we send it, usually within one working day.Ask for a document
