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Spring Antiques & Fine Art Auction Wednesday 21st, Thursday 22nd & Friday 23rd March 2018 £5 Chris Ewbank, FRICS ASFAV Andrew Ewbank, BA, ASFAV Andrea Machen, Cert GA Emily Angus, BA, FGA 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: Lot 387 Inside Front Cover: Lots 201 and 589 Back Cover: Lot 2024 Spring Antiques & Fine Art Auction Surrey & Hampshire’s Premier Auctioneers & Valuers Spring Antiques & Fine Art Auction Jewellery, Costume Jewellery, Watches, Coins, Silver Plate, Silver, Works of Art, Ceramics & Glass, Collectables, The Stephen Furniss Collection of Pictures relating to Shere and The Surrey Hills, Fine Art & Prints, Clocks & Instruments, Persian Rugs, Antique Furniture SALE: Wednesday 21st, Thursday 22nd & Friday 23rd March 2018 at 10am VIEWING: Saturday 17th March 10am - 2pm Monday 19th March 9am - 5pm Tuesday 20th 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 commercial bidding platform additional charges will apply, see the terms and conditions on the specific website for details. Artist Resale Right is payable on selected lots where marked in the catalogue. Ewbank’s are no longer able to accept cheques as payment for items purchased at auction. 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 21st March 2018 at 10am 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 10am Conditions of Business that you do not fully understand. Costume Jewellery 430 2:50pm Please make sure that you read our Terms of Sale set out in this catalogue or on our Watches 540 3:55pm website carefully before bidding in the auction. If your bid is successful, you will be obliged to comply with our Terms of Sale. Coins 609 4:45pm 2. Agency. As auctioneers we usually act on behalf of the seller whose identity, for 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. Thursday 22nd March 2018 at 10am 3. Estimates. Estimates are designed to help you gauge what sort of sum might be involved for the purchase of a particular lot. Estimates may change and should not be Lot Section will thought of as the sale price. The lower estimate may represent the reserve price (the 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 Silver Plate 1000 10am announcement by the auctioneer before the auction of the lot. They are not definitive. Silver 1015 10:10am 4. Buyer’s Premium. The Terms of Sale oblige you to pay a buyer’s premium at 27% inclusive of VAT on the hammer price of each lot purchased. If buying online there Works of Art 1270 1:20pm maybe an additional online live bidding fee payable as a percentage of the hammer Ceramics & Glass 1312 1:50pm price, see the terms and conditions you sign up to when bidding on the third party Collectables 1365 2:30pm commercial bidding platform. Stephen Furniss Collection 5. VAT. Items in our catalogue may be marked in the following ways: of Pictures relating to Shere a. (†) indicates that VAT is payable by the buyer on the hammer price as well as being an element in the buyer’s premium. VAT will be chargeable at the standard rate and The Surrey Hills 1445 3:30pm (presently 20%). This imposition of VAT is likely to be because the seller is registered Sylvia Whiteford-Engholm 1491 for VAT within the European Union and is not operating the Dealers Margin Scheme Fine Art & Prints 1500 4:05pm 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. [These lots are liable to a reduced rate of VAT (5%) on the hammer price and buyer’s premium)]. c. Lots which do not have either of the above symbols have no VAT payable on the Friday 23rd March 2018 at 10am hammer price. This is because such lots are sold using the Auctioneers’ Margin Scheme. The VAT included within the premium is not recoverable as input tax. Lot Section will 6. Inspection of goods by the buyer. As we act on behalf of the seller, we are not start dependent on information provided by the seller about their goods. We may inspect lots before time and will act reasonably in taking a general view about them. However, we are normally Clocks & Instruments 2000 10am unable to carry out detailed examinations of lots to check their condition in the way a buyer would do. You will have ample opportunity to inspect the goods. You must inspect Persian Rugs 2050 10:35am and investigate lots that you might wish to bid for. Please note carefully the exclusion of Antique Furniture 2074 10:55am liability for the condition of lots set out in the Terms of Sale at clause 12.4. 7. Electrical goods. These are sold as “antiques” only. If you buy electrical goods for use you must ask a qualified electrician to check them for compliance with safety regulations before you use them. 8. Export of goods. If you intend to export goods you must find out: EXPLANATION OF PICTURE CATALOGUING TERMS a. whether an export licence is needed; and Any statement as to authorship, attribution, origin, date, age, provenance b. if there is a prohibition on importing goods of that character e.g. because the goods and condition is a statement of opinion and is not to be taken as a contain prohibited materials such as ivory. statement of representation of fact. The Auctioneers reserve the right, in 9. Bidding. Bidders will be required to register with us before the auction starts. We forming their opinion, to consult and rely upon any expert or authority reserve the right to impose a deadline prior to the auction by which you must register or considered by them to be reliable. by which we must receive a commission bid. If you wish to bid on high value lots this The forename(s) and surname of the artist: In our opinion a work by the deadline may be several days before the auction in order to allow us sufficient time to artist. carry out the necessary checks. Lots will be invoiced to the name and address on the The initials of the forename(s) and the surname of the artist: In our registration form. You will need to provide us with proof of your identity in a form opinion a work of the period of the artist which may be wholly, or in part acceptable to us and such other information as we may require. Please enquire in his work. advance about our arrangements for telephone or online bidding. Please note that we The surname only of the artist: In our opinion a work of the school or by may refuse to register you if you do not provide us with all the information and one of the followers of the artist or in his style and of uncertain date. documentation that we ask for or at our discretion. Phone bidders must be prepared to guarantee a starting bid of at least £500 if they wish to bid by telephone. REMEMBER ‘English School’, ‘Italian School’ etc: In our opinion a work executed at a THAT YOU CAN BID LIVE ON EWBANKS LIVE ON THE SAME BASIS AS IF later date that the style may suggest. YOU ARE IN THE ROOM AND SAVE UP TO 6% OVER ANY OTHER BIDDING ‘Signed’: Has a signature which in our opinion is a recognised signature. PLATFORM FOR THIS SALE ‘Dated’: Is so dated and in our opinion was executed at that date. 10. Commission bidding. You may leave commission bids (absentee bids) with us The term ‘bears’ a signature and/or date and/or an inscription: Means indicating the maximum amount to be bid against a lot (excluding the buyers’ premium that in our opinion the artist’s name and/or date and/or inscription have and/or any applicable VAT).