Since 1990 Salvo has been involved in the establishment of a simple code for dealers who buy and sell architectural antiques, antique garden ornament and reclaimed building materials.
Our aim has been to give buyers confidence that items they buy have not been stolen or removed from listed or protected buildings without permission.
Many dealers have already established a sensible buying procedure but the Salvo Code makes this more formal, understandable and obvious to the buying public.
In this way customers are given the choice of buying from relatively safe and responsible sources.
 
The Salvo Code Dealer undertakes:
1. Not to buy any item if there is the slightest suspicion that it is stolen.
2. Not to knowingly buy any item removed from listed buildings without listed building consent or from sites of scheduled monuments without scheduled monument consent.
3. To record the registration numbers of vehicles belonging to persons unknown who offer items for sale, regardless of whether a purchase is made.
4. Where possible to keep a record of the provenance of an item, including the date of manufacture, where it was removed from, and any previous owners.
5. To allow their business details to be held on a list of businesses who subscribe to the Salvo Dealer's Code.
6. To allow a copy of this Code to be displayed in a public position within their premises.