About Bleasdales
‘The aim with our Sewing Sales is to meet the interests of experienced and new collectors, and to make the process of buying and selling at auction enjoyable and straightforward.’
Bleasdales founding director, Robert Bleasdale, has more than 30 years experience working with fine art and antiques. He is a qualified member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and has been a Director and Senior Board Member of both Phillips and Bonhams auctioneers.
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and a highly experienced and knowledgeable specialist. As Group Managing Director of Bonhams, he was instrumental in founding and then expanding their specialist sewing sales held at the company’s Knowle salerooms in the West Midlands.
‘...catalogued with an attention to detail that is rarely reserved for such relatively humble objects. Over the years Mr Bleasdale......has built up a good base of sellers, huge support from the trade and an enviable list of collectors.’
These sales have proved hugely popular with both collectors from within the United Kingdom and overseas and have regularly achieved selling rates in excess of 90%, as well as world record prices for individual items. Under Robert’s guidance Bleasdales has recently expanded its sale programme to include a specialist sale devoted to highly desirable
Bleasdales offer a
. We provide insurance and auction valuations for a wide range of clients, working with solicitors involved with large complex estates to private clients, who need a current valuation for a single item or small collection.
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An Introduction to Bleasdales' Sewing Sales
who founded the company in 2009, has more than 36 years of experience within the auction world and held his first specialist sewing sale in 1989. As an auctioneer he has achieved a number of world records including the sale of an Elizabethan thimble in 1990 which made £18,000.
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