R.E. Treasure established an antique shop in Preston in c.1900. According to the Burford dealer Roger Warner, remembering Frederick Treasure in the 1930s; Roger wrote that he was 'every inch a ladies' man. He was immaculate as a person, always had a button hole'. Treasures' shop 'Treasure House', Preston, was (also according to Warner, in the 1930s) 'arranged not as a warehouse...but in a series of furnished rooms...' (Memoirs of a Twentieth Century Antique Dealer, Roger Warner (edited by David Jones), RFS, 2003, p.77.
In 1924, G.B. Treasure was running R.E. Treasure at North Street, Preston.
