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…