PADDINGTON TICKET AUCTIONS
Sale 297
Special Coronavirus Alternative Auction, closing Tuesday, 2nd February 2021
As live auctions are not permitted during the coronavirus emergency, this auction is being run as a Postal Auction as a replacement for our normal live events. Bidding in this sale is via email and post.
CATALOGUE NOTES
Please note the change from a live auction at the Royal National Hotel to a Postal Auction.
Postal Delivery Delays
The NN11 postcode, which includes Woodford Halse, is receiving reduced deliveries (2 per week).
If you are posting bids for this auction, please post early. It it is essential that you contact the office to confirm that we have received your bids. Alternatively, email your bids. If emailing, please look out for our return confirmation email. If no confirmation is received, please re-send or contact the office.
Bidding
Bids can be submitted by post or email to the address below (where equal bids are submitted, the first received will take preference). Please ensure that you give us your card payment details or blank cheque (with an appropriate 'not to exceed £...' endorcement) with your bids. Due to social distancing rules, we will be unable to have several staff working together at the office to take the payments and dispatch the tickets after the sale closes, as we would in normal times. To avoid interupting and delaying the one staff member who will be sending out the tickets to the successful bidders after the auction, please make sure that we have your payment details before the sale closes. Bidding will be in the following steps:
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£1 up to £10 |
£10 up to £500 |
The successful bidder will pay one step above the next highest bid, or the minimum price in the absence of other bids. A buyer's premium of 10% + VAT will apply to all bids, total 12%.
Final Bid
"Final Bid" gives you the ability to avoid losing a highly desirable item when there is keen bidding from rival participants. Please read the following notes if you are likely to place a bid of £200 or more on any lot in the auction.
If you bid £200 or over on a lot, you have the option to book Final Bid on that lot. If you book Final Bid on a lot, we will then telephone you between 14.00hrs and 16.00hrs on the Tuesday afternoon of the sale closing day. We must have received your phone or email booking Final Bid on, or preferably before, the Monday afternoon prior to the closing day, or have received a written request with your bidding form. Please specify each lot in the sale that you wish to book Final Bid on. Your minimum bid on these lots must be at least £200 to qualify for Final Bid.
Booking Final Bid does not mean that you will have to pay a "hammer price" of £200 or more. The hammer price will be one increment over the next highest bid, as per normal. However, we would expect you to bid at least £200 if you have a rival who takes the bidding to this level.
When we ring you, we will tell you the current status of your bid. The possibilities will be:
- a. You are the highest bidder, there are no other bidders on the lot who have requested Final Bid and you have been successful.
- b. You have been outbid by an "up to" bid and have the option to bid against this higher bid until you exceed it, or you drop out, as in a live auction.
- c. You and at least one other person have booked Final Bid on a lot. You may each bid live via the phone to determine the highest, winning bid.
When booking Final Bid, please ensure that you are available to be phoned on the Tuesday afternoon of the auction closing day, in this case Tuesday, 2 February. Please ring us on 01327 262193 if you do not receive a booked Final Bid call, have a problem, or wish to clarify any points.
The condition of the tickets is indicated as follows:
Front of Tickets
 | indicates that the ticket is in excellent/undamaged condition |
 | indicates the ticket is in good condition with no noticeable defects |
 | indicates the ticket has some wear or minor crease, although still presentable |
 | indicates the ticket is in poor condition |
 | indicates the ticket has faded |
 | for travel tickets: issued and dated example |
Platform Tickets: issued examples, though as is usual some are dated and some undated |
Back of Tickets
 | indicates that the back of the ticket is in good, undamaged condition |
 | indicates that the back of a ticket has paper residue as a result of previous mounting, usually removable with care |
 | indicates that the back of the ticket, including the back paper, has actual damage or loss |
 | indicates that the ticket has no back |
This catalogue will be updated with the Sale Results after the auction. This will show the hammer price and the bidding number of the winning bidder for each Lot.
Lots purchased by bidders will be posted by special delivery at the buyer's risk, unless otherwise instructed, and the receipt retained for three months.
Acknowledgement
Dates associated with station names are taken from Michael Quick's chronology Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain, which is gratefully acknowledged. The fifth edition of this monumental work is now available in PDF form as a free download from the website of the Railway & Canal Historical Society.
Specialists in Railway, Tram and Bus Tickets,
Great Central Railwayana Ltd
14 School Street, Woodford Halse, Daventry, NN11 3RL
Telephone: 01327 262193 / 263633 ~~ Email:
Company Reg. No. 5405235 |
VAT Reg. No. 864 7353 93 |