AN AUSPICIOUS INDIAN ARTIST - PART TIME PRINCE!

Many people get confused with the words Vintage and Antique. Vintage means "of the period" and not necessarily a particular number of years old, for example you can have a 2007 Vintage wine.

In General, the word Antique means 100 years old. Here on eBay some categories of items are considered in the listings to be antique if prior to 1940 in age. This varies in categories. In the ART category, an antique is pre 1900 while in the collectible category under clocks an antique clock is pre 1930.

This same category lists vintage as 1930-1969 while vintage guitars are pre 1980 and vintage toy soldiers are pre 1970.

We can go on and on but the point is there is no set and fast rule on eBay concerning dating, for they themselves vary it. We honest dealers can only give our best estimate and judgment as to the items age, condition and value.

OUR MERCHANDISE IS NOT STRICTLY AVAILABLE TO EBAY CUSTOMERS.  WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO END AN AUCTION IF
A PIECE SHOULD SELL THROUGH ONE OF OUR STORES OR
ANOTHER AUCTION HOUSE.  WHENEVER POSSIBLE WE WILL LET
ANYONE BIDDING ON THE PIECE KNOW AHEAD OF TIME BUT IF
YOU SEE SOMETHING YOU LIKE BUY IT NOW AS IT COULD SELL TOMORROW!

We make a great effort in providing you with photographs, measurements, and whatever detail and faults with each item as possible. We are not professsional Antique Appraisers!

We ask you to contact us should you have any problems with your item but we consider it to be the responsibility of the buyer to study the numerous and expensive photographs we have taken, measurements listed and research done on each piece. If you have ANY questions or wish for additional photographs from any angle please email us and ask for them prior to bidding for all listing are sold "As Is" except for particularly unusual circumstances, we are honest sellers and treat our clients the way we would want to be treated. 

We have had the rare occassion where a client pointed out a problem with a piece that we issued them a full credit for as we would want done for us, this has happened twice in the five years we have been doing business.  Our former policy was 3 day return but due to too many clients suffering from buyers remorse and taking advantage of us we have changed the policy.

We will be glad to provide you with whatever we can to make you comfortable with your purchase. We make postal insurance manditory for breakable items being sold within the country.

All items are re-inspected prior to shipping to make sure that the condition has not changed since our listing, if it has we will notify the buyer of the changes and leave the option to take the piece or not up to him/her.

As most oversea's shipping options come with a certain amount of insurance we make the purchase of additional insurance optional. We still recommend that on high end items you purchase insurance above and beyond that of the insurance provided by the carrier.

We do not profit off insurance and consider that policy to be just wrong, insurance is for your benefit. While we make great efforts to make sure that items arrive to our customers intact things do happen, items got lost along route or buried under a pile of other boxes. Should your piece arrive to you in a damaged condition we will be there to help you file the claim.