Mid Winter Estate Auction

By bidding at this auction, you are entering into a legal contract. Please read all terms and conditions PRIOR to bidding. If you have any questions regarding these terms, please contact Tim Chapulis, Auctioneer (860) 459-0964 or timchauplis@timsauctions.com. Please bid responsibly! By bidding at this auction you agree to all the terms and conditions as follows. Bid with confidence! Tim's Inc. Auctions is an established auction house in business for 40 years, since 1979. We value the trust put in us by both buyers and sellers. THE FINAL BID FOR EACH ITEM SHALL BE ACCEPTED AT THE SOLE DISCRETION OF THE AUCTIONEER. By registering to bid or placing a bid you agree to be bound by all of these terms & conditions, and any other announced terms and conditions of sale or rules of this site. Connecticut law will apply to all legal disputes. BIDS MAY COME FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES. Bids at this auction may be from additional online 3rd party systems, phone bids, absentee bids and left bids. Being the high bidder on this platform DOES NOT GUARANTEE FINAL PRICE AND SALE OF ANY ITEMS. The auctioneer will have the final say to determine winning bidder. ALL BIDS ARE FINAL! NO REFUNDS. All Sales are Final. All items offered for auction will be sold AS IS, WHERE IS, and WITHOUT GUARANTEE. A buyer' premium of 25% is added to the price knocked down by the Auctioneer for bidders. BID RESPONSIBLY! Your bid is a contract. Tim?s Inc. Auctios is not responsible for any bids that were placed in error. Most of these errors can be easily prevented by taking the time to clearly read our terms. If you are the successful and winning bidder, you have entered into a legally binding contract to purchase the property bid on from the seller. Bidding will begin at a price appropriate at the auctioneer?s discretion. The auctioneer always reserves the right to withdraw a lot for any reason he deems appropriate. ABSENTEE / PHONE BIDS /ONLINE BIDS: Absentee bids are accepted. Phone bids are accepted at the Auctioneer's discretion. Tim's Inc. Auctions shall not be held responsible or liable for bids that are missed or otherwise not executed. If you will be bidding online, please sign up prior to the start of the auction. If you sign up during the auction, your status may still be pending while the sale is in progress. We will review all pending registrations as quickly as possible during the auction, but make no guarantee that your registration will be accepted while the auction is in progress. Phone bidders are required to register for phone/absentee bidding no later than 3 days prior to the auction. A completed bidding contract must be filled out and returned to Tim's Inc. prior to auction date, or phone bids will not be accepted. The buyer's premium for phone bids will be the same as online. Phone bidders will be called from the auction house. No incoming calls are taken for phone bids or condition reports the day of auction. As each item is sold the phone bidders agent will announce the bid price. Failure to immediately object constitutes acknowledgment of the purchase at the announced price. Phone bidders should confirm the hammer price after any successful bid. TERMS AND CONDITIONS Bids accepted by the online bidding console may or may not be accepted by the auctioneer. THE FINAL BID FOR EACH ITEM SHALL BE ACCEPTED AT THE SOLE DISCRETION OF THE AUCTIONEER. The actual buyer and final bid shall be as recorded by the auctioneer, even if different from that recorded on the online system. By registering for this auction bidder agrees that Tim's Inc. Auctions shall be held harmless for any and all damages as a result of a clerking error on the online system. Bids on the floor generally take precedence. If you require further information please contact Tim Chapulis, Auctioneer at: (860) 459-0964 or email: timchapulis@timsauctions.com. Please ask questions before your bid! Contact: Tim Chapulis, Auctioneer at: (860) 459-0964. We will respond to email by updating the ONLINE condition report - so please check there for your response. Requests that are too general won't be responded to when a condition report is already online. Requests for "more images" without specific requests won't be honored. We generally provide only overall condition reports on group lots and not individual images. ALL REQUESTS FOR IMAGES AND CONDITION REPORTS SHOULD BE MADE AT LEAST 72 HOURS PRIOR OF SALE. All items sold "as is where is". No returns or buy backs. Please inspect photographs closely as we try to describe all items thoroughly and will not be held responsible for any inaccuracies in description and or photographs. Though all description and commentary are believed to be correct, neither Auctioneer nor Consignor makes any warranties or representations of any kind with respect to merchandise with the exception of the catalog description which shall be honored with respect to age and origin and authorship of art works, and only to the extent that any such errors in the catalog description materially affect the value of such item. Condition reports are made to the best of our ability, but are not guaranteed. THE ABSENCE OF A CONDITION REPORT DOES NOT IMPLY THE LOT IS WITHOUT DEFECTS. Buyer shall not rely on the Auctioneer, employees, or advertisements in any part, and must rely only on the catalog description and his own inspection and opinion of all items. CATALOG DESCRIPTIONS MAY BE REVISED UP TO THE TIME OF SALE. No employee is authorized to make any warranties, expressed or implied, on behalf of Tim's Inc. Auctions. Warranty is limited to AGE, GENERAL ORIGIN AND AUTHORSHIP OF ARTWORKS. Additional description reflects our best opinion. All sizes and other measurements are approximate. Any and all claims made to Tim's Inc. Auctions or consignor regarding age, authenticity, origin, rarity, provenance, size, or other aspects of description must be made within 10 days of the auction date and in writing. IF ITEM IS BEING SHIPPED, IT IS THE BUYERS RESPONSIBILITY TO ASSURE RECEIPT OF ITEM IN TIME TO ACT ON WARRANTY SHOULD THERE BE AN ISSUE. Our warranty is limited to the selling price and to errors that are substantial to value and not already apparent in images provided. Claims must be made against the final catalog as revised by any addendum or auctioneer announcements. Claims may not be made against advertisements, website descriptions, or the preliminary catalog offered on our website. Items described as "possibly", "probably", "manner of", "style of" or "attributed to" are not guaranteed, but represent our best opinion. No guarantees are made as to condition. The Auctioneer is acting as agent only and is not responsible for acts of its principals. If any dispute arises, the Auctioneer's word is final. Where the Consignor is indebted to or has a monetary guarantee from Tim's Inc. Auctions, and in certain other instances, Auctioneer may have an interest in the offered lots and the proceeds there from other than its commissions, and may bid therefore to protect its own interests. Auctioneer reserves the right to withdraw any lots from the sale or cancel a sale at the Auctioneer's discretion at any time until payment is accepted from buyer. BUYER AGREES TO HOLD AUCTIONEER HARMLESS FOR WITHDRAWAL OR CANCELLATION OF SALE. The Auctioneer reserves the right to reject any bid or eject any person from the premises.

A Processing and Handling Fee of $25 will be added to each invoice over $50, a $15 processing fee will be added to each invoice under $50. Payment MUST be paid IN FULL within 5 business of sale, NO EXCEPTIONS! Tim's Inc. does NOT accept Paypal or Credit Cards of any kind! WIRE TRANSFERS: Invoices totaling $1,000 and above will require Wire Transfer payment. Wire Transfer Instructions will be emailed after the auction. (Please note there will be an additional fee for wire transfers under $1,000 of $20). For invoices under $1,000: POSTAL MONEY ORDER OR CASHIER'S CHECK. WE DO NOT ACCEPT PAYPAL OR CREDIT CARDS OF ANY KIND. Payments to be sent to: Tim's Inc., 1185 Farmington Ave., Bristol, CT 06010. Payments accepted will be Wire Transfer, Cashier’s Bank Checks, Postal Money Orders, personal checks, (must clear our banks prior to release to shipper). Any direct deposit transactions will be done at the expense of the buyer, with prior approval of Tim’s Inc. Auctions. Any payments not received in 5 business days will result in a $50 late fee immediately added to invoice. All unpaid invoices will be turned over to our attorney for collection. Buyer will be responsible for all reasonable attorney's fees. All late and non-paying bidders will receive negative feedback with their online bidding component. A $100 per lot fee will be added for all items not paid for and picked up or shipped within 20 days of the auction date. In addition, if payment in full as not been made within 30 days, the purchaser may be subject to one or more of the following actions: a) Any and all legal remedies available to Tim’s Inc. and its consignors by law including without limitation the right to hold the purchaser liable for the total purchase price; b) Immediate cancellation of the sale, with Tim’s Inc. retaining as liquidated damages all payments made by the purchaser; c) Resale of the property at public auction, wherein the original purchaser shall be liable for any deficiency, costs, and Tim’s Inc.’s commission on both sales. At Tim’s Inc.’s option, payment will not be deemed to have been made in full until Timâ€ÃÃâ€Â

We strive to provide accurate, objective and fair information on all lots for sale, and we are happy to provide condition statements as a courtesy to our clients. Please keep in mind that any condition statement is merely an opinion, not a statement of fact, and all lots are sold as is. Tim's Inc. Auctions shall have no responsibility for any error or omission and neither Tim's Inc. Auctions nor any consignor makes any warranties or representation of any kind or nature with respect to the property, and in no event shall they be responsible for the correctness, nor deemed to have made any representation or warranty, of description, genuineness, authorship, attribution, provenance, period, culture, source, origin, or condition of the property and no statement made at the sale, or in the bill of sale, or invoice or elsewhere shall be deemed such a warranty of representation or an assumption of liability.