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An invoice stating the actual purchase price will accompany all international purchases. export Licences A licence from the Museums, Libraries & Archives Council will be required before items of certain kinds may be exported from the United Kingdom. Any item containing ivory will require a CITES licence before it can be exported from the EU. Payment Payment will be accepted, if you are a successful bidder, by debit card issued by a UK bank, in cash up to £12,000 (subject to relevant money laundering regulations), by bank transfer direct into our bank account, Bank Details: Natwest, 214 High Holborn, London WC1V 7BX. Account Name: <strong>Bloomsbury</strong> <strong>Auctions</strong> Clients Limited. A/C: 26702975 Sort Code: 60-30-06 BIC: NWBK gB 2L IBAN: gB82 NWBK 6030 0626702975 or by all major UK issued credit cards registered to a UK billing address with the exception of American Express and Diners Club. A surcharge of 3% is payable on all payments made by credit card. This surcharge does not apply to debit card payments. Payment may also be made by Sterling personal cheques drawn on a UK bank account but <strong>Bloomsbury</strong> regrets that purchases paid for by this method cannot be collected until your cheque has cleared. the symbol u following a lot number indicates that <strong>Bloomsbury</strong> auctions has a financial interest, direct or indirect, in the lot in question, above & beyond the seller’s commission or buyer’s premium. Artist’s Resale Rights (“Droit de Suite”) Lots marked with an delta symbol (δ) are subject to theArtist’s Resale Right Law.The buyer agrees to pay <strong>Bloomsbury</strong><strong>Auctions</strong> an amount equal to the resale royalty and we will pay such amount to the artist’s collecting agent. Resale royalty applies where the Hammer price is 1,000 Euros or more and the amount cannot be more than 12,500 Euros per lot.The amount is calculated as follows: Royalty For the portion of the Hammer Price (in euros) 4.00% up to 50,000 3.00% between 50,000.01 and 200,000 1.00% between 200,000.01 and 350,000 0.50% between 350,000.01 and 500,000 0.25% in excess of 500,000 Invoices will, as usual, be issued in Pounds Sterling. For the purposes of calculating the resale royalty the Pounds Sterling/ Euro rate of exchange will be the European Central Bank reference rate on the day of the sale. vAT v Zero-rated items such as books, unframed maps and albums are not subject to VAT on the buyer’s premium. Eligible items such as manuscripts, prints, photographs, drawings, framed maps, paintings, pens and other objects are subject to VAT on the buyer’s premium as part of the auctioneers margin scheme at a rate of 20%. This will be invoiced at a rate inclusive of premium and VAT. Lots with an asterisk (*) in the catalogue are subject to VAT on the hammer price as well as the buyer’s premium. Lots marked with a double asterisk (**) have been imported from outside the EU to be sold at auction, and therefore the buyer must pay the import at a rate of 5% on the hammer and 20% on the buyer’s premium. valuations v We undertake valuations for Probate and Insurance, fees being agreed by prior arrangement. If items are subsequently consigned for sale, the fees will be refunded. 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AUCTIONS BLOOMSBURY LONDON MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOgRAPH LETTERS & EPHEMERA, CONTINENTAL & ENgLISH LITERATURE AND MODERN FIRST EDITIONS CHILDREN’S & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS AND PRIVATE PRESS Thursday 27th October 2011, 10.30am
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