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AUCTION CALENDAR
MAY 2006
All the auctions held by Gelos Auction House are available on our website gelos.ru!
Gelos Auction House holds the following auctions:
1. Weekly antique auctions. Held every Wednesday and Friday, except the first and the last Friday of each month. Weekly antique auctions will be of interest not only to collectors
but also to connoisseurs of original and extraordinary objects, as well as to
interior designers. Their main advantage is their moderate prices, you may purchase
objects at starting prices ranging from 1 rouble to a few tens of thousand of
roubles. Wednesday auctions usually feature the following sale categories: BOOKS (old editions, books, documents), MAIN lots (inexpensive decorative art objects: bronze, porcelain, delftware, glass..., old master paintings and drawings, icons, old clocks and others), CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS. Friday auctions, generally, comprise the following sale categories: NUMISMATIC OBJECTS (coins, orders, medals and insignia), PHILATELIC OBJECTS (postage stamps, postal envelopes, postcards, photographs), CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS, PAINTINGS (old master paintings and drawings), ANTIQUE ARMS, MAIN lots (decorative objects: bronze, porcelain, delftware, glass..., icons, old clocks and others), FURNITURE (old furniture), specialised categories of JUDAICA and ASIAN & ISLAMIC ART. Items put up for Friday auctions are more expensive than those put up for Wednesday auctions. Additionally, every third Friday of the month the auction features a specialised category of EXTRAORDINARY AND SPICY OBJECTS (extraordinary and original objects, erotic objects). 2. Big Friday Auctions. Held on the first Friday of each month (that is the Friday following month or season auction).
Big Friday Auction considerably surpass common Friday sales in the quality of items presented, since the lots with the reserve price determined for month or season auction not reached a shade form the basis of its collection. Big Friday Auctions usually feature the following sale categories: NUMISMATIC OBJECTS (coins, orders, medals and insignia), PHILATELIC OBJECTS (postage stamps, postal envelopes, postcards, photographs), CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS, PAINTINGS (old master paintings and drawings), ANTIQUE ARMS, MAIN lots (decorative art objects: bronze, porcelain, delftware, glass..., icons, old clocks and others), FURNITURE (old furniture), specialised categories of JUDAICA and ASIAN & ISLAMIC ART. 3. Silver and Clock Auctions. Held on the last Saturday of each month, the next day after the Month or Season Auction. The auction features a specialised category of SILVER (silverware, clocks and jewellery, cigar(ette)-cases and many other objects) and CLOCKS & WATCHES (wristwatches, wall clocks, mantle clocks and the like). 4. Month Auctions. The Month Auction is held on the last Friday of each month. Its rules are almost the same, but the lots at auction slightly differ. Collecton of items for this auction is made up of the most interesting and extraordinary objects selected in the course of the whole month. Accordingly, prices at these auctions are higher. Month auctions at Gelos Auction House got their name and their specific character, accordingly, in 2003. Sale categories and the general structure of sales remain the same, but the emphasis is being placed on objects of a certain category. 5. Season Auctions. Season Auction is the final auction of the quarter. It falls at the last Friday of the month as well. These auctions feature the most important and expensive objects, in this respect, they are similar to the collector's auction. Collection of items is formed beforehand, as well as when the matter concerns collector's auctions, experts thoroughly select items. Gelos Antiques and Auction House Gelos Auction House, Ltd. is the largest auction house of Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States providing a full range of services in the Russian antiques market. The company carries out appraisals and makes expert examination, holds auction sales, sells antiquities in its galleries and salons, forms private and corporate collections. The purchase can be made in any convenient way: at auction or from a respective department, as well as by leaving an absentee bid on items of a concrete epoch and style. Payment can be made with cash or cashlessly. You may also pay a deposit of 30% of items cost and redeem them within three days. Storage and shipment are subject to charge. Oral valuations and advice are free of charge. For further information, contact our employees and see our auction catalogues. When conducting auctions, we make it a basic rule to give absolutely reliable auction results to provide real-time quotations at the time of sale. There are two ways of participating in auctions: bidding in person or placing an absentee bid by telephone or via the Internet from any place on Earth. Live Auctions On-Line Some people think that the auction is a VIP event gathering elite, collectors, businessmen, celebrities. Nowadays, modern technologies make it possible for almost every Worldwide Web user to bid at the very elite antiques auction of Russia. Our website folder Live Auctions On-Line contains images and descriptions of the lots put up for auction on the indicated day in Gelos Auction House salesroom at 2/6 or 4 1st Botkinsky Proezd, Moscow. The auctions on-line version gives you a real chance to join to a new auction culture, which is rather well developed in this country. If you want to purchase from us but are unable to take part in our month or season auction in person, you may leave an absentee bid on the lots you like. Live Auctions On-Line: Terms and Conditions
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