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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 416268, member: 5833&quot;]The fine print for auction houses I see is strictly <i>caveat emptor</i>.&nbsp; They make a point of saying they do not guarantee anything; would be bidders are advised to come inspect items in person &amp; form their own opinions.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is also on the thread I started about a line of faux marble plaques with (probably) faux bronze medals on the back.&nbsp; You would never know from description &amp; price achieved that this was one of them:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/4999306_032013-madame-leon-bertaux-oval-marble-relief-plaque" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/4999306_032013-madame-leon-bertaux-oval-marble-relief-plaque" rel="nofollow">https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/4999306_032013-madame-leon-bertaux-oval-marble-relief-plaque</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This is typical boilerplate:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">Condition reports are provided as a courtesy and are based solely on opinion and observation and are not a guarantee of an item&#039;s quality, as well as reflect expectations subject to the given age of the given lot. Condition reports carry no guarantee, implied or otherwise, of their correctness. Existence of a condition report for a given lot does not presume that all aspects of a particular lot have been analyzed. While every reasonable effort is made to respond to all requests for condition, due to the volume of requests, DuMouchelles cannot guarantee that all requests will receive a response.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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