

They will be executed as cheaply as possible having regard to the reserve (if any) and competing bids. Please enquire in advance about our arrangements for telephone bidding.Ĭommission bids may be left with the auctioneers indicating the maximum amount to be bid excluding buyer’s premium. Some form of identification may be required if you are unknown to us.
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This is because such lots are sold using the Auctioneers’ Margin Scheme and it should be noted that the VAT included within the Premium is not recoverable as input tax.īidders will be required to register before the sale commences and lots will be invoiced to the name and address on the registration form. Lots which appear without either of the above symbols indicate that no VAT is payable on the hammer price. The double symbol (**) indicates that the lot has been imported from outside the European Union and the present position is that these lots are liable to a reduced rate of VAT (5%) on the gross lot price (ie both the hammer price and the buyer’s premium). 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 or because VAT is due at 20% on importation into the UK. (*) indicates that VAT is payable by the purchaser at the standard rate (presently 20%) on the hammer price as well as being an element in the buyer’s premium. For buyers bidding 'live' via an additional premium of 6% + vat (7.2% inclusive) will be levied (29% + vat total 34.8% inclusive) which will be collected by the auctioneer on behalf of The Conditions of Sale oblige buyers to pay a buyer’s premium at 23% + vat on the hammer price of each lot purchased (27.6% inclusive). Our staff will be happy to help you if there is anything you do not fully understand. All sales are conducted on our printed Conditions of Sale which are readily available for inspection and normally accompany catalogues. There is seldom access to the mechanisms, but I might note that Belgium (and Mechelen especially) is noted for carillons.The following information notes are intended to assist Buyers, particularly those inexperienced or new to our salerooms. When the early cloth trade faded elsewhere, Mechelen was briefly the third largest city in Europe. Mechelen can be reached by city bus from Antwerp, as well as by train. I think the weekly market day in Mechelen is Saturday. I see online there may be a clock museum in nearby Mechelen, (also a great medieval daytrip).

(Not a medical promise!) Lier combines well (for train line reasons) with Turnhout (no clock museum), which has superb wood carvings in the Cathedral, and a nice little Beguinage. It's conceptually similar to a pecan tart, but I think without any nuts. You want to try the local pastry, Liers Vlaaike. Lier is a very attractive medieval town center, with lovely canals, and a few other small museums, like the town's art museum, and a doll or puppet (?) museum that I didn't go to. It's not worth an extra plane flight, maybe, but it's easily reached from the popular cities in northwest Belgium, with frequent local trains from Antwerp. Although the Utrecht museum is on the link in the second reply, that list did not include the hand-built massive clock (and associated workshop beside it) in Lier, Belgium.
