These sections of our website provide images and descriptions of items put up for auction on the indicated day in the Gelos's salesrooms at 2/6 or 4 1st Botkinsky Proezd, Moscow, Russia.
If you cannot attend an auction in person but would like to participate in the sale, you can fill in a bidding form and send it for us to execute written bids according to your instructions. We will try to buy lots you have chosen for the lowest price possible, though not exceeding the 'top limit' you indicate, as is consistent with other absentee and in-person bids. This service is free of charge and confidential.

The simplest and most convenient way is to leave an absentee bid (commission bid) via the Internet.

In order to leave an absentee bid, click on the Leave an Absentee Bid link under the description of the lot you like and fill in the form offered (lot image and number will be added to the form automatically). Filling in this form and registering at the Gelos Auction House's website, you give your consent to observe all our rules (see also Gelos Auction House's Terms & Conditions).

Additionally, clients who have already purchased items at our auctions can send their absentee bid to director@gelos.ru.

The absentee bid must contain your name and surname; name of the item (the first few words from the description) along with the maximum amount you are ready to pay for the item in question (the bidding on your behalf will be conducted within the price range you indicate). You must also indicate your active e-mail address and contact telephone number.

Bidding on every lot opens with the starting price indicated and, unless ontherwise announced by the auctioneer, the bidding increment is approximately 10% (see the table at the bottom of the page).

Gelos Auction House warrants that the lots you have chosen will be purchased at the lowest possible price. Unless other participants make bids, you buy the item at the starting price. If an auction participant present in Gelos Auction House's salesroom bids a higher price, your bid will auctomatically move one step forward within the maximum price you indicate. If the last floor bid arrives at the upper bound of your absentee bid, the floor participant who has entered the same bid wins, since the auctioneer has no right to raise your bid any longer.

Please, remember that all sales are subject to a 10 percent buyer's premium, except for coins & medals category at Friday auctions where all purchases are subject to a 5 percent buyer's premium.

When filling in the form, be sure to record accurately lot numbers, descriptions and 'top limits' for each lot: the latter must coincide with the amount to which you would bid if you were attending the auction yourself. 'Buy' and unlimited bids and the like will not be accepted. Please, send your absentee bid as early as possible. In the event of identical bids, the earliest received will take precedence.

Accreditation or deposit of 10% of the lot value is essential to bid at auction on lots with the starting price of $50,000 and more.

Absentee bids can only be placed up to 12.00 p.m. of the day of the auction.

When the auction is over, you will be informed by e-mail on the auction results concerning the lots you have placed absentee bids on.

The buyer must make payment in full and take away all the lots purchased not later than 3 days after the day of the auction. For clients who have already bought items at our auctions,
a 7-day time-limit is also available, if a tentative agreement has been reached.

Domestic shipment and various payment possibilities are also provided. If you cannot collect the purchased lots in person and want us to send them by post or via express mail, you should e-mail us in good time at director@gelos.ru or correct payment and shipment terms and mechanism. However, in any case, the lot purchased must be paid for within 7 days after the day of the auction; otherwise, it will be reoffered in a future sale.

WARRANTIES

Gelos Auction House guarantees the authenticity of lots descriptions on the gelos.ru website, in official catalogues and the GELOS's expert reports within five (5) years. You may see all the information on auction terms & conditions in GELOS Auction House's Auction Terms & Conditions
We warrant that your participation in auctions will be held in strict confidence.

You may view auction results on our website after the auction.

Tel:(095) 945-55-24
E-mail: director@gelos.ru

Gelos Auction House holds the following auctions:

1. Weekly dealer auctions. Held every Wednesday and Friday, except the first and the last Friday of each month.

Weekly dealer 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.
You will find at our auctions extraordinary objects to give as a present, you will be able to feel the taste of searching for an object indispensable to your collection, decorate your house, as well as enrich your collections of rare coins and insignia, postage stamps and envelopes, find old editions of books, newspapers and magazines to match your library.

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 each 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 offered, 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, items are thoroughly selected by experts.