Strauss & co - 12 November 2012, Johannesburg

184 Strauss and Company (Proprietary) Limited (‘Strauss & Co’) carries on business as fine art auctioneers and consultants. As auctioneers, Strauss & Co would usually act as agent of the seller of a lot or (in instances where Strauss & Co owns or has a financial interest in any lot) as principal. The contractual relationship of Strauss & Co with prospective buyers and sellers is governed by (i) the conditions set out below, (ii) any additional or special terms and conditions that Strauss & Co may impose (whether in the form of notices displayed at the premises at which any auction is conducted or announced by the auctioneer prior to or during any auction and whether in respect of any specific lot or in general), and (iii) such other terms and conditions as may be set out in any relevant catalogue (collectively the ‘general conditions of business’). 1 DEFINITIONS In these general conditions of business, headnotes are for convenience only and shall not be used in their interpretation, any expression which denotes any gender shall include the other genders, any expression which denotes the singular shall include the plural (and vice versa), any expression which denotes a natural person shall include a juristic person (and vice versa) and the following terms shall have the following meanings —  1.1. ‘auction’ means any private treaty or auction sale at which a lot is offered for sale by Strauss & Co;  1.2 ‘auctioneer’ means the representative of Strauss & Co conducting an auction;  1.3 ‘bidder’ means any person making, attempting or considering to make a bid or offer to buy a lot at an auction, including the buyer of that lot;  1.4 ‘buyer’ means the bidder who makes the bid or offer for any lot that is finally accepted by the auctioneer (after determination by the auctioneer of any dispute that may exist in respect thereof) at a sale of that lot, and (where the buyer is an agent acting for a principal), the buyer and the buyer’s principal jointly and severally;  1.5 ‘buyer’s premium’ means the premium payable by the buyer of a lot to Strauss & Co on the sale of that lot, calculated on the hammer price of that lot at the relevant current rates;  1.6 ‘catalogue’ means any advertisement, brochure, estimate, price-list and other publication (in whatever medium, electronically or otherwise) published by Strauss & Co in respect of any auction;  1.7 ‘current rates’ means Strauss & Co’s current rates of commission, premiums and other amounts payable to Strauss & Co for the time being, together with VAT thereon (if any), all as published by Strauss & Co (whether in a catalogue or otherwise) or as agreed between a prospective buyer or seller (as the case may be) and Strauss & Co;  1.8 ‘forgery’ means an imitation made with the intention of deceiving as to authorship, origin, date, age, period, culture or source, which is not shown to be such in the description in the catalogue and which at the date of the sale had a value materially less than it would have had if it had been in accordance with that description and includes any misrepresentation made with the intention of deceiving as to authorship, origin, date, age, period, culture or source;  1.9 ‘hammer price’ means the bid or offer made by the buyer for any lot that is finally accepted by the auctioneer (after determination by the auctioneer of any dispute that may exist in respect thereof) at a sale of that lot, together with VAT thereon (if any);  1.10 ‘lot’ means any item or items to be offered for sale by Strauss & Co at an auction;  1.11 ‘prime rate’ means the publicly quoted base rate of interest (percent, per annum compounded monthly in arrear and calculated on a 365 day year, irrespective of whether or not the year is a leap year) from time to time published by The Standard Bank of South Africa imited, or its successor-in- title, as being its prime overdraft rate, as certified by any manager of such bank, whose appointment, authority and designation need not be proved; Conditions of Business