Friday, July 24, 2009

First Painting For Sale - Updated

BIDDING IS CLOSED

Chegu Mazeri Othman @ Deen has decided to sell the painting to Puteri Kamaliah. Thus further bidding for this painting is now considered closed.
This is the first sale of any painting by Deen.

Current Highest Bid: RM600 (Puteri Kamaliah)

Title: Buah Seto Tok Ma (Grandma's Mangosteen)
Date completed: Jan 2009
Size: 28" x 24" (71cm x 62cm)
Medium: Oil Painting
Reserved Price: RM500.00
Last bidding day: Closed
The painting can be viewed at Che Gu Mazeri's House in Pasir Mas. He is also known as Deen. Call him on 0199214717 for an appointment should you want to view the painting.

This is the first painting donated by Chegu Mazeri Othman of Kampong Tok Sangkut. The proceed from this sale will go towards the purchase of materials for new paintings to be done by Chegu Mazeri. The new paintings made from materials bought from this initial sale will be auctioned off at this blog to generate a contant source of income for this fund.
Tok Sangkut Benevolent Fund is being established with the sole purpose of helping the school children around the village of Tok Sangkut and the immediate areas around it. The details of the administration and purpose of the fund will be spelt out in this blog as soon as they are available.
To kick off the fund, we are offering for sale to the highest bidder the above oil painting on canvas by Chegu Mazeri Othman. Biddings can be made openly in the comment column by stating the amount you want to bid which should be equal to or more than the reserve price. For those who want to bid in privacy, you can email your bid to this address: mohdzawi@streamyx.com. by stating:
1. Your bid amount,
2. Your name and address in full,
3. Contact number or email.
The bidding will be opened for a month and at the end of the bid period, the person with the highest bid will be offered to purchase the painting. The current highest bid will be displayed at the bottom of the painting. The painting will be delivered to the successful bidder after payment is effected via bank transfer to this Maybank account: 003042113389 Under the name of Mohamad Zawawi Ahmad. This is a temporary account and a special account will be opened up after the sale of this first painting.
Should the highest bidder fail to effect payment after the stipulated period of time, the painting will be offered to the next highest bidder.
The status of the fund will be updated regularly and its balance will be published here regularly together with the names of the beneficiaries and the amount received by them.
As for the moment the bidding is only open to residents of Malaysia due to problem of postage and packing cost. However if the price is reasonable, or the overseas bidder is willing to undertake the cost of postage and packing, the delivery can also be made to overseas bidder.
Any enquiries can be made to Chegu Mazeri at the above contact number or you can visit his blogsite http://toksangkuthomestay.blogspot.com or to Mohamad Zawawi Ahmad at 0199125647 email mohdzawi@gmail.com