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Spring Antiques & Fine Art Auction Wednesday 22nd, Thursday 23rd & Friday 24th March 2017 £5 Chris Ewbank, FRICS ASFAV Andrew Ewbank, BA, ASFAV Andrea Machen, Cert GA Emma Reeves, FGA, DGA Senior partner Partner Jewellery Specialist Gemmologist [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Alastair McCrea, MA Andrew Delve, MA, ASFAV Tim Duggan, ASFAV John Snape, BA, ASFAV Partner Partner Partner Partner [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Front Cover: Lots 181 & 47 Inside Front Cover: Lots 3252 & 1198 Back Cover: Lot 3251 Spring Antiques & Fine Art Auction Surrey & Hampshire’s Premier Auctioneers & Valuers Spring Antiques & Fine Art Auction Jewellery, Costume Jewellery, Watches, Coins, Silver Plate, Silver, Automobiles, Objects and Works of Art, Ceramics & Glass, Collectables, Fine Art and Prints, The Anthony Cumings Collection, Clocks, Persian Rugs & Antique Furniture SALE: Wednesday 22nd, Thursday 23rd & Friday 24th March 2017 at 10am VIEWING: Saturday 18th March 10am - 2pm Monday 20th March 9am - 5pm Tuesday 21st March 9am - 7pm Mornings of sale For the fully illustrated catalogue, to leave commission bids, and to register for Ewbank’s Live Internet Bidding please visit our website: www.ewbankauctions.co.uk The Burnt Common Auction Rooms London Road, Send, Surrey GU23 7LN Tel +44 (0)1483 223101 E-mail: [email protected] Buyers premium, at 27% inclusive of VAT, is payable on every lot in this sale. There is no additional online buyers premium payable on our website (www.ewbankauctions.co.uk) or at www.theauctionroom.com. If bidding online via another third party bidding platform additional charges will apply, see the terms and conditions for the specific website for details. Artist Resale Right is payable on selected lots where marked in the catalogue. We only charge VAT on the hammer price in rare cases where the vendor is registered fot VAT. Where payment is by Credit Card only an additional 3% plus VAT is payable on the hammer price. MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY OF FINE ART AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS FOUNDER MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF ACCREDITED AUCTIONEERS http://twitter.com/EwbankAuctions www.facebook.com/Ewbanks1 ORDER OF SALE INFORMATION FOR BUYERS AT AUCTIONS 1. Introduction. The following notes are intended to assist bidders and buyers, particularly those that are inexperienced or new to our salerooms. All of our auctions Wednesday 22nd March 2017 at 10.00am are governed by our Conditions of Business incorporating the Terms of Consignment (primarily applicable to sellers), the Terms of Sale (primarily applicable to bidders and Lot Section will buyers) and any notices that are displayed in our salerooms or announced by the not start auctioneer at the auction. Our Conditions of Business are available for inspection at our before time salerooms and the Terms of Sale are printed in the back of our auction catalogues and on our web-site. Our staff will be happy to help you if there is anything in our Jewellery 1 10:00am Conditions of Business that you do not fully understand. Costume Jewellery 330 2:00pm Please make sure that you read our Terms of Sale set out in this catalogue or on our Watches 430 3:10pm website carefully before bidding in the auction. If your bid is successful, you will be Coins 496 4:00pm obliged to comply with our Terms of Sale. Silver Plate 528 4:20pm 2. Agency. As auctioneers we usually act on behalf of the seller whose identity, for Silver 543 4:30pm reasons of confidentiality, is not normally disclosed. If you buy at auction your contract for the goods is with the seller, not with us as auctioneer. 3. Estimates. Estimates are designed to help you gauge what sort of sum might be Thursday 23rd March 2017 at 10.00am involved for the purchase of a particular lot. Estimates may change and should not be thought of as the sale price. The lower estimate may represent the reserve price (the Lot Section will minimum price for which a lot may be sold) and will not be below the reserve price. not start Estimates do not include the buyer’s premium or VAT (where chargeable). Estimates before time are prepared some time before the auction and may be altered by a saleroom notice or announcement by the auctioneer before the auction of the lot. They are not definitive. Automobiles 1000 10:00am 4. Buyer’s Premium. The Terms of Sale oblige you to pay a buyer’s premium at 27% Objects & Works of Art 1006 10:00am inclusive of VAT on the hammer price of each lot purchased. Ceramics & Glass 1033 10:20am 5. VAT. Items in our catalogue may be marked in the following ways: Collectables 1086 11:00am a. (†) indicates that VAT is payable by the buyer on the hammer price as well as being Fine Art & Prints 1125 11:30am an element in the buyer’s premium. VAT will be chargeable at the standard rate (presently 20%). This imposition of VAT is likely to be because the seller is registered for VAT within the European Union and is not operating the Dealers Margin Scheme Friday 24th March 2017 at 10.00am or because VAT is due at 20% on importation into the UK. b. (**) indicates that the lot has been imported from outside the European Union. Lot Section will [These lots are liable to a reduced rate of VAT (5%) on the hammer price and buyer’s not start premium)]. c. Lots which do not have either of the above symbols have no VAT payable on the before time hammer price. This is because such lots are sold using the Auctioneers’ Margin Scheme. The Anthony Cumings Collection The VAT included within the premium is not recoverable as input tax. Objects & Works of Art 3000 10:00am 6. Inspection of goods by the buyer. As we act on behalf of the seller, we are Ceramics & Glass 3030 10:20am dependent on information provided by the seller about their goods. We may inspect lots Silver Plate 3135 12 noon and will act reasonably in taking a general view about them. However, we are normally unable to carry out detailed examinations of lots to check their condition in the way a Silver 3149 12:10pm buyer would do. You will have ample opportunity to inspect the goods. You must inspect Jewellery 3249 1:25pm and investigate lots that you might wish to bid for. Please note carefully the exclusion of Collectables, including liability for the condition of lots set out in the Terms of Sale at clause 12.4. Royal Memorabilia 3265 1:35pm 7. Electrical goods. These are sold as “antiques” only. If you buy electrical goods for Fine Paintings & Prints 3335 2:25pm use you must ask a qualified electrician to check them for compliance with safety regulations before you use them. Clocks & Furniture 3401 3:15pm 8. Export of goods. If you intend to export goods you must find out: Clocks 4000 3:30pm a. whether an export licence is needed; and Persian Rugs 4048 4:05pm b. if there is a prohibition on importing goods of that character e.g. because the goods Antique Furniture 4064 4:15pm contain prohibited materials such as ivory. 9. Bidding. Bidders will be required to register with us before the auction starts. We reserve the right to impose a deadline prior to the auction by which you must register or by which we must receive a commission bid. If you wish to bid on high value lots this deadline may be several days before the auction in order to allow us sufficient time to EXPLANATION OF PICTURE CATALOGUING TERMS carry out the necessary checks. Lots will be invoiced to the name and address on the Any statement as to authorship, attribution, origin, date, age, provenance registration form. You will need to provide us with proof of your identity in a form and condition is a statement of opinion and is not to be taken as a acceptable to us and such other information as we may require. Please enquire in statement of representation of fact. The Auctioneers reserve the right, in advance about our arrangements for telephone or online bidding. Please note that we forming their opinion, to consult and rely upon any expert or authority may refuse to register you if you do not provide us with all the information and considered by them to be reliable. documentation that we ask for or at our discretion. Phone bidders must be prepared to The forename(s) and surname of the artist: In our opinion a work by the guarantee a starting bid of at least £500 if they wish to bid by telephone. REMEMBER artist. THAT YOU CAN BID LIVE ON EWBANKS LIVE ON THE SAME BASIS AS IF The initials of the forename(s) and the surname of the artist: In our YOU ARE IN THE ROOM AND SAVE 6% OVER ANY OTHER BIDDING opinion a work of the period of the artist which may be wholly, or in part PLATFORM FOR THIS SALE his work. 10. Commission bidding. You may leave commission bids (absentee bids) with us The surname only of the artist: In our opinion a work of the school or by indicating the maximum amount to be bid against a lot (excluding the buyers’ premium one of the followers of the artist or in his style and of uncertain date. and/or any applicable VAT). We will execute commission bids as cheaply as possible ‘English School’, ‘Italian School’ etc: In our opinion a work executed at a having regard to the reserve (if any) and competing bids.