The catalogue for the Spring Auction 2023 will be online from Sunday 9 April 12:00 (CET)

* Live auctions: Sunday 16 until Tuesday 18 April:

* 20th Century Decorative Art & Design
* 20th Century Jewellery
* Photography

          Viewing days:

14 - 16 April 2023 / 10 AM -  5 PM

Moezelhavenweg 99
1043 AM Amsterdam
The Netherlands

For more information, please contact:

Inez van Leuzen / +31 (06) 537 08 952
auctions@botterweg.com

You can add lots to your list of favorites by clicking the heart symbol that can be found next to the lot numbers on the auction pages. The hear will then turn red.

You can remove lots from your list of favorites by clicking the hear symbol again.
The heart will become light-grey and the lot will be removed from the list.

A lot is automatically marked as a favorite if you have placed a bid on it. In that case the heart symbol will also turn red.

Indien mogelijk, ontvangen wij graag eerst een paar foto's van de in te brengen items, zodat er alvast enig voorwerk gedaan kan worden.
Vervolgens kunt u per email (auctions@botterweg.com) of telefonisch (06 - 537 08 952) een afspraak maken >>

Kantoor Botterweg Auctions Amsterdam:
Moezelhavenweg 103
1043 AM Amsterdam
(kaart)

Bij verkoop wordt een basis-commissie berekend aan de inbrenger van 15% plus BTW (totaal 18,2%) over de hamerprijs.
Voor items met een hoge waarde is de commissie onderhandelbaar.
De minimale commissie die per kavelnummer bij verkoop berekend wordt is 10 euro.
Indien een item niet verkocht wordt, dan zijn er verder ook geen te betalen kosten.
Tot 100 euro is een limiet niet mogelijk, dan wordt de startprijs automatisch 1 euro.

Stipt vier weken na afloop van de veiling wordt de opbrengst op uw bankrekening gestort.
Eventueel niet verkochte kavels moeten binnen max. 8 weken na afloop van de veiling weer zijn opgehaald, daarna kunnen wij opslagkosten gaan berekenen.

Als u wilt inbrengen, dan graag een afspraak maken, en mocht u nog specifieke vragen hebben, dan horen wij deze graag.

If you want to change your password, you can do so by clicking your name after you logged on.

You will see a screen with the link 'Edit Profile', on which page you will find the link "Manage Password"

After clicking that link, you can fill in your old password, and 2x your new password.

Don't forget to enter the 'Change Password' link.

If you have forgotten your password, you can click the link "forgot password" on the logon page.

You will come on a page where you can fill in your username.

An e-mail with your password will directly be sent to you.

If you have forgotten your username, you can fill in your e-mail address on the logon page.

An e-mail with your username will directly be sent to you.

We advise you to first have a look if your username exists, by clicking the link "forgot username ?" on the logon page and fill in your email-address.

If you do not receive an email-notification, there is a fair chance you have not registered yet.

You can do so, by clicking the link "register" (top of the page), and register.

If you have forgotten your username, you can fill in your e-mail addres on the logon page.

An e-mail with your username will directly be sent to you.

An example:

The starting amount of an item is 100 euro and someone (Bidder 1) makes a bid of 100 euro.
You (Bidder 2) bid 200 euro.
By making your bid, the bidding amount is automatically increased to the next bidding step: 110 euro for bidder 2. Bidder 2 has effectively bid the highest amount, but his visible (and therefore actual) bid is never more than one bidding step above the previously highest bid.

It could be, however, that Bidder 1 bid 150 euro.
In this case the visible (and therefore actual) offer of Bidder 2 becomes 160 euro, again one bidding step above the previously highest bid.

However, if Bidder 1 has made a bid of 300 euro, then Bidder 1 remains the highest bidder with an amount of 220 euro, that is, one bidding step above your (Bidder 2) maximum bid of 200 euro.

On your “my bids” page, you can see whether you are (still) the highest bidder.

Bidding steps:

From 0-5 euro the bidding steps are 1 euro
From 5-50 euro the bidding steps are 5 euro
From 50-200 euro the bidding steps are 10 euro
From 200-500 euro the bidding steps are 20 euro
From 500-1000 euro the bidding steps are 50 euro
From 1000-2000 euro the bidding steps are 100 euro
From 2000-5000 euro the bidding steps are 200 euro
From 5000-10000 euro the bidding steps are 500 euro
From 10000-50000 euro the bidding steps are 1000 euro
From 50000-more euro the bidding steps are 2500 euro

It is possible that the Internet connection on the side of the receiver skips.
This happens often with internet connections and generally one does not notice it, because usually a page with static data is viewed.
On a real-time page as in our live auctions you notice instantly, because all computers cummunicate dozens of times per second with our three servers.
If the internet connection fails one or more seconds, you do not notice if you look at a static page, but on our real-time page you will notice that immediately.

Unfortunately we have no influence whatsoever on the internet in general,
otherwise we would immediately start working on a solution for this kind of
situations.

Bidding steps:

From 0-5 euro the bidding steps are 1 euro
From 5-50 euro the bidding steps are 5 euro
From 50-200 euro the bidding steps are 10 euro
From 200-500 euro the bidding steps are 20 euro
From 500-1000 euro the bidding steps are 50 euro
From 1000-2000 euro the bidding steps are 100 euro
From 2000-5000 euro the bidding steps are 200 euro
From 5000-10000 euro the bidding steps are 500 euro
From 10000-50000 euro the bidding steps are 1000 euro
From 50000-more euro the bidding steps are 2500 euro

In the last hour of the auctions no bid confirmation e-mails will be sent any longer.
It appeared that sending of large quantities of those e-mails slows down the possibillity to make bids.
You can see on your "My bids" page what the actual situation of your bids is.

Bidding is possible by clicking on a photo or the description of an item.

Doing so will take you to the bidding page, where you will find more pictures and a more detailed description of your lot.

Here, you can fill in your maximum bidding amount.

However, this does not mean that your bid becomes the actual bid.

The auction proceeds by means of a fixed ladder of increasing bids.

By making a bid the bidding amount is automatically increased to the next bidding step.

Therefore, your actual bid is never higher than 1 bidding step above a previously (by someone else) offered amount.

To make bids, you must have registered and be logged in.

When you don't receive bid confirmation e-mails, there is nothing wrong.

Sometimes the e-mail servers of some providers consider the e-mail bid-confirmations of Botterweg.com as spam, because large quantities of those e-mail bid-confirmations are being sent.

Most unfortunately we cannot do a thing about the used technique by those providers.

You can see on your "My bids" page, if you are (still) high bidder, we advise to check regularly your "My bids" page.

When you already made a bid, not have been outbid, but like to raise your bid, you can do sso without problems.

You can never outbid yourself, you only raise your maximal bid-amount.

In such a situation, that specific amount is already bid by another bidder, in the form of a sleeping bid.

For example, if see 180 euros on your screen, and your bid is 200 euro , then, if a sleeping bid is present, that makes the sleeping bid of 200 euro effective.
The offer of 200 euros is for the sleeping bidder being the first person that has bid amount, and you see on your Live-auction page that you are not the highest bidder, despite the fact that you have offered 200 euros.
However, in your subsequent bid you will become the highest bidder.

No, that is not possible.

It is technical not possible to make changes to the data-files during the auction.

It is possible that the Internet connection on the side of the receiver skips.
This happens often with internet connections and generally one does not notice it, because usually a page with static data is viewed.
On a real-time page as in our live auctions you notice instantly, because all computers cummunicate dozens of times per second with our three servers.
If the internet connection fails one or more seconds, you do not notice if you look at a static page, but on our real-time page you will notice that immediately.

Unfortunately we have no influence whatsoever on the internet in general,
otherwise we would immediately start working on a solution for this kind of
situations.

In such a situation, that specific amount is already bid by another bidder, in the form of a sleeping bid.

For example, if see 180 euros on your screen, and your bid is 200 euro , then, if a sleeping bid is present, that makes the sleeping bid of 200 euro effective.
The offer of 200 euros is for the sleeping bidder being the first person that has bid amount, and you see on your Live-auction page that you are not the highest bidder, despite the fact that you have offered 200 euros.
However, in your subsequent bid you will become the highest bidder.

Every registered and logged-on visitor can participate in the Live auctions.
If you are not logged on, you can (like non registered visitors) see the Live auction, but you can not make bids.

The gray bar shows you how much time there is left to bid.
You have about 10 seconds to make your bid, then the bid button above turns gray, and bidding is no longer possible, in order to prevent you accidentally make a bid on the following lot.

The items do not end all at the same time at the end of the auction.

The lots will end one by one, starting with the lot no.1
Bids can go on until no one is bidding any longer, ca.10 seconds after the last bid the auction continues with lot no.2 etc.
We call this the Live part of the auction.

The aftersale follows after the last auction has ended on Wednesday evening.

This means, that items with no bids during the auction can be bought for the starting-price plus a 27.4 % premium.

The duration of the aftersale is 9 days.

Unsold items are sent back to the consigner.

If you are interested in unsold items, also from previous auctions, we can contact the consigner.

If the items are still available, they will be sold for the starting-price plus the 27.4% premium.

9 days

Payments are handled via a 'derdengeldenrekening' (separate clients account) which is managed by the Foundation Geldenrekening Botterweg Auctions Amsterdam.

The capital on this account is therefore strictly separated from BAA's business capital.

No, we do not accept personal- or bankcheques, incuding Western Union cheques etc.

You can only pay by banktransfer or cash.

No, we do not accept Credit Cards.

You can only pay by banktransfer or cash.

No, we do not accept paypal.

You can only pay by banktransfer or cash.

Payment...

• Cash
• Pin
• Bank transfer

After the complete auction has ended you will automatically receive an invoice by email showing the total amount of your purchases. This will be around 22.00 (CET), after the last lot of the complete auction has ended. Also a paper version of the invoice will be send by post.
The total amount is made up of the bid amounts increased with an additional amount of 27,4% as surcharge (including VAT over the surplus) and, as the case may be, with resale rights.
The amount can be paid in cash or by pin when you pick up your purchased items. You may also make a bank transfer of the amount after which you may pick up the purchased items.
Please note that you must produce the purchasing invoice and that the amount must be added to our account before you can take the purchased items with you.

In case of payment by banktransfer, payment should be made to (stating the invoice number):
 
               Stichting Gelden Botterweg Auctions Amsterdam
               Moezelhavenweg 99
               1043 AM Amsterdam
               The Netherlands
       
Bank:    ING
              Bijlmerplein 888
              1102MG Amsterdam
              the Netherlands
       
BIC:       INGBNL2A
IBAN:     NL40INGB0004002005

Yes, all parcels sent by us are insured.

Botterweg Auctions Amsterdam is unable to pack and ship furniture, large & heavy items. We can only send purchased items that fit into a box.

Paintings, items with glassplates and extremely fragile items, are not covered by our insurance.

Payment of the sending costs has to be done in advance, we do not make exceptions. We advise to ask for the sending costs prior to bidding.

We pack all items in plastic bubble-foil, the box will be filled with foam chips.

If certain defects or deficiencies are noted, they are supposed to be an indication which is not exhaustive. Only when an item is damaged or, as far as we are aware, has been restored, will this be mentioned.

When an item is sound, we will mention it is in good condition, however please take into account that all items are aged and therefore might show traces of usage.

It is therefore recommended to pay a visit to the viewing days.

General Terms & Conditions Article 12. Storage of purchased goods.

• After the auction has ended BAA keeps the goods of buyers (if paid for) in storage for 8 (eight) weeks free of charge. After these 8 weeks the storage costs will be 25 euros per item per month, unless a different arrangement has been made with the auction master.
• When the cost of storing exceeds the value of the total price of the goods, then the goods will be included in the next auction to cover these costs. Also, the goods will be included in the next auction if they have not been picked up within a year after the auction has ended and the total of the storage costs will be deducted from the result of the sold goods.

This right entitles the creator of an original work of art to receive a small percentage of the sale price when his/her work is resold. The legislation was introduced in the Dutch Copyright Act on 1 January, 2006.

What are the terms and conditions?

The resale of an artwork must satisfy a number of criteria to qualify for resale royalties.
* Resale right only applies when an artwork is resold and thus have no bearing on the first sale
* It applies to an original artwork or a work that is created by the artist him/herself or under his/her supervision in a limited edition, for example graphic work
* An art market professional must be involved in the sale as either buyer, seller of intermediary. This professional is responsible for payment of the resale royalty
* The resale price must be at least € 3.000
* If the work is resold within three years following its original purchase from the artist, a resale right royalty is payable if the sale price exceeds € 10,000
* The artist must be an EU national, or a national of Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway, or must be a permanent resident of the Netherlands.

As of 1 January, 2012, resale royalty is also payable upon the sale of artwork by deceased artists. As with copyright, a resale royalty is payable for a period of 70 years following the death of the artist.

How much is due?
The amount of resale royalties due ranges from 0,25% to 4% of the resale price:

The maximum sum due in resale royalties is € 12,500.

If you have any suggestions or remarks, we would really like to hear those.

We can not make changes at once, but we will take your suggestions in consideration to make the auction a smooth and pleasant experience.

You can e-mail your suggestions to auctions@botterweg.com

Thanks in advance !