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Catalogue of the household furniture comprising iron French and half-tester bedsteads and bedding, suites of bedroom furniture, drawing room & dining room suites mahogany square pianoforte, violin in case, china, glass, and the usual kitchen requisites to be sold by auction, 1885
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1Conditions of Sale.
3I. The highest bidder to be the Purchaser, and no sale unless there are two bidders.
5II. If any dispute shall arise in the bidding for any Lot, it shall be put up again and re-sold.
7III. No person to advance less than 1s.; above two pounds, 2s., and so on in proportion.
9IV. The Purchasers to give their names and places of abode and pay down immediately 5s. in the pound in part payment of the purchase money, if required.
11V. The refusal of any person to deposit earnest when required shall be deemed, if judged necessary, a proof of the inability of the party so refusing to fulfil these Conditions of Sale; in which case the Auctioneer may consider the lot or lots so knocked down under these circumstances, as unsold, and then immediately proceed to sell the same, and be at liberty to refuse such defaulter's bidding in future.
13VI. The lots to be taken away and paid for, with all faults and errors of description, at the Buyer's expense and risk, the day after the Sale, the Auctioneer not being responsible for the correct description, genuineness, weight, or authenticity of any Lot. The purchase money to be fully paid before the delivery of the articles.
15VII. Upon the failure of complying with the above Conditions the monies deposited in part payment to be forfeited. The lots uncleared within the time aforesaid shall be re-sold by public or private sale, and the deficiency, if any, together with the charge attending such re-sale, shall be made good by the defaulters at the sale.
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