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DO YOU WISH TO BE A CONSIGNOR? NOW ENTERING OUR NINTH YEAR! The beauty of auction as a means to sell your art collection or parts of it is that you get top dollar for your artwork. If you sell to a dealer, they are going to offer you 50% of what it is worth. In auction, there is no set selling price. If you have that truly great find, the sky is the limit as seen in too many auctions everyday, and you are the beneficiary. Which route do you wish to go??? Outer Cape Auctions uses all the available tools to market your artwork. Our goal is to bring as many qualified buyers together in one setting to bid on your artwork. Advertisement includes but is not limited to, The Arts & Antiques Weekly, The Maine Antiques Digest, The Boston Globe, The Cape Cod Times, The Provincetown Banner, websites, mailings, posters and flyers, press releases and direct marketing to art collectors and dealers. Depending on the item and the importance of it to the Art World, The New York Times, and other major publications would be used. We also utilize pinpoint marketing for collectors and artists. We accept artwork only. That may include all forms of art. Size may be a factor. Also, be aware, we specialize in the marketing and sales of early and contemporary Provincetown and Cape Cod art and artists. We do also on occasion accepts consignments by New England, American and International artists. To set up an appointment with a representative of Outer Cape Auctions, please call (508) 487-7281 and ask for the consignment department. Outer Cape Auctions specializes in fine art. We represent estates, private art collectors, artists and dealers. Outer Cape Art Auctions is a fully licensed and bonded auction house. If you have something that you would like to consign to Outer Cape Auctions, then please either call or email us with the exact information and preferably an image of the work(s). We require artist, title (if any), medium (if known), size, signature, provenance and any other pertinent details that can help us ascertain the potential value in auction. If you like what we say and wish to continue, then your next responsibility is getting the work(s) to us. We do travel locally for consignments when our schedule allows. Consignments need to be shipped to Outer Cape Auctions, 8 Pearl Street, Provincetown, MA. 02657. Inside the package, please include a note with your full name, mailing address, phone number and any terms we discussed prior to your shipping the work to us. On receipt of the consignment, we will fill out a consignment contract and mail it to you. It is for your records only. Reserves or minimum bids sometimes are allowed on a consignment. A reserve or minimum bid means that the auction house cannot sell it for less that that price. Most auction houses will charge a buyback penalty on items with reserves as they need to still cover their expenses, whether the item sells or not. We prefer not to charge a buyback penalty unless the terms you require and the reserve is really not a reasonable amount. If there is no reserve, then the item will sell, no matter what on the day of the auction. It may sell for as little as $25.00 but usually we only accept items that our buyers will want, hence, rare that prices at that area are somewhat rare. Our buyers are very educated and serious collectors of the Provincetown and Cape Cod artworks and they know a star when they see it, and a piece of junk at the same time. In an auction, the auction house's responsibility is to market the auction to as many qualified buyers for a given day, bring them into one room and pit them against each other. The buyers are ultimately the ones that ascertain the value of any given lot on that given day. The auction house strives to realize the absolute top dollar possible on each lot since we are paid by a percentage, hence the more we hammer it at, the more we will make. Also, most important, auction results are usually online within 36 hours after the auction. The posted prices include the buyer premium which goes directly to the auction house. That said, you will have to figure backwards to see what the hammer price is on any given lot, and then subtract the consignor fee to figure what the amount due you will be. We ask that consignors do not call the day after the auction and prefer
that you just look online for the results as each auction can have as many as 70
consignors or more and we would never be able to get anything done is all we did
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