Sewing box takes Bleasdales’ top spot

Delayed for a month by the pandemic, the specialist sewing sale held as a timed online auction on thesaleroom.com at Bleasdales (20% buyer’s premium) of Warwick proved a profitable stitch in time. The sale, which covered the gamut of collectables, closed with only 16 of the 665 lots failing to get away.

Topping proceedings was a c.1820 export ivory sewing box. A typical example of Cantonese craftmans…

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