David Sonnenthal took an unusual route into pawnbroking, moving into the industry after a successful career in show business. Between the ages of 17 and 26, he worked as a professional actor, appearing in a variety of productions on both stage and screen. In 1996 he even won the prestigious Perrier Award for acting at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
His pawnbroking career in London started quite by chance after he discovered the future site of New Bond Street Pawnbrokers during an acting audition in 1999. Immediately seeing the shop’s potential, he turned it into a successful pawn shop LOndon business and went on to become one of the UK’s top pawnbrokers.
David is a highly respected figure in the pawnbroking industry, winning the National Pawnbroker Association’s award four times in 2022, 2021, 2019 and 2008. Over the course of his 20-year career, he has gained a reputation as one of the pioneers of UK and London's pawnbroking. He is a regular fixture in the British media, often providing expert advice on market values.
Never one to lose touch with his roots, David has even managed to continue his entertainment career as the resident dealer on Channel 4’s popular Four Rooms TV series.
Having worked in the pawnbroking industry for 20 years, Susana offers a high level of knowledge within the lending sector. Her expertise is key to the daily business at New Bond Street Pawnbrokers where she ensures that compliance is adhered to. With a keen interest in the satisfaction and experience of our clients, Susana is a huge asset to the team and is a fundamental part of the day to day running of the company.
Employee of the Year - NPA Awards 2021
Mariana has been working in the pawnbroking industry since 2014. She enthusiastically embraces her newly found interest in watches. Mariana thoroughly enjoys working with customers, building strong relationships, and over her long and distinguished career she distinguished herself through excellent communication skills, and high personal integrity.
Constantin leads our multi-award digital marketing team, with an exclusive focus on delivering the best possible digital experience for our clients, from the moment they reach our website, finding the information they need, and getting in touch, to learning interesting facts about the fascinating world of luxury via our comprehensive blog.
New Bond Street Pawnbrokers have been brokering and providing loans against fine jewellery, loans on fine watches, diamonds, fine art, fine wine, luxury cars , antiques other fine personal assets in London since the early 2000’s. With over 60 years of industry experience, our commitment to providing a different type of pawnbroking service in Central London has enabled us to grow our business to an ever-expanding exclusive international clientele.
Our objective has always been to bring one of the oldest trades in the world into the 21st century.
We’re proud to say that over the last five years, New Bond Street Pawnbrokers have supplied over £25 million in asset loans. Our advice, expertise, and premier service keep our clients coming back (over 80% of our clients come back to use our pawn shop London services).
Our ambition is to continue to evolve within our industry, providing asset-based loans for clients old and new, delivered with discretion, professionalism, and a commitment to quality of pawnbroking service. As one of the leading and most reputable independent pawn shops and pawnbrokers in London – and indeed the UK – we ensure that all loan transactions are handled securely, promptly, and with a sensitivity and care unmatched in the pawnbroking industry. Our experience and understanding of luxury products such as jewellery, diamonds, fine watches, fine art, fine antiques, luxury cars, private plates and vintage wine enable our clients to achieve the maximum loan against their items, based on current market values.
We offer an immediate, secure, private, and no-fuss pawnbroking service in Central London for loans against luxury items.
New Bond Street Pawnbrokers is a high end pawn shop located on a cobbled street just off New Bond Street in Mayfair, London. The Mayfair area is renowned for its jewellery, diamonds, fine watches, luxury cars, art and antiques, Mayfair is the ideal location for us to keep up to date with the luxury goods business, as well as being perfectly located for our clients.
We share the postcode with a diverse range of traditional stores, auction houses and restaurants, as well as some of London’s most modern boutiques, cafes and contemporary galleries.
Modern, chic and comfortable, our Central London headquarters enables us to provide a secure, professional and relaxed environment from which to supply award winning pawnbroking services. Unlike most traditional pawnbroking stores, we have never retailed from our premises.
No appointment is necessary to meet our pawnbroking experts. We very much look forward to welcoming you to New Bond Street Pawnbrokers soon.
Receive 100% of the agreed loan price
Private and confidential, with no credit checks
Achieve the maximum amount of credit against an asset
Nothing to pay for up to full term of the contract
Immediate appraisals and specialist pawnbroking advice
Immediate credit with minimal paperwork
Pawnbroking is a simple method to raise immediate loans against assets of value. New Bond Street Pawnbrokers is a member of the National Pawnbrokers Association UK, which means that all of our contracts are for the regulated term of up to seven months.
New Bond Street Pawnbrokers specialises in loans against fine jewellery, diamonds, fine watches, fine art, fine antiques, luxury cars, and vintage wine in Central London. For more information on loaning against fine items please visit the category of the respective item below.
The National Pawnbrokers Association UK and New Bond Street Pawnbrokers require that all new clients have photographic ID and proof of a current address.
Here at New Bond Street Pawnbrokers our London pawnbroking service is a no-fuss method of raising immediate finance without affecting credit ratings. It’s private and confidential.
If you wish to use our pawn shop service or raise a loan against an item please visit our premises in Mayfair, London. For items such as fine jewellery, diamonds and fine watches there is no need for an appointment. For fine art, fine antiques, luxury cars and private plates please contact us prior to a visit so that we can begin the loan process.
New Bond Street Pawnbrokers will always consider any item as collateral.
Achieving a realistic market price for a luxury good can be daunting prospect. New Bond Street Pawnbrokers offers advice and expertise to assist our clients in managing their asset sales, we also offer an upfront pawnbroking loan service prior to the sale of the asset.
Our in-house London pawn shop experts work with a network of brokers, galleries, dealers, specialists and auction houses (including Philips, Christies, Bonhams and Sothebys). To establish and achieve a current market sale price for a luxury good, New Bond Street Pawnbrokers consistently looks to recommend the most suitable sale.
Once the market and items have been assessed and an auction or sale estimate has been confirmed New Bond Street Pawnbrokers can then proceed with a sale advance against the luxury good. Usually, this is a high percentage of the actual sale reserve.
Once the item has been sold and payment has been received, the sale advance is then paid off with the balance returned to the client.
New Bond Street Pawnbrokers offers loans against any and all luxury goods that are of significant value. Here are a number of specific services that our award winning pawnbroking London service commonly offers:
For clients wishing to use New Bond Street Pawnbrokers home appraisal service we offer a valuation service and can visit our clients either at home or at a requested location.
Private, confidential and discreet, this enables our clients to feel at ease while our experts carry out their valuation.
Get in touch with us here to arrange a valuation.
A loan from New Bond Street Pawnbrokers is fast, secure, simple, confidential and designed for clients to release the maximum amount of capital in their luxury good, with the minimum of time and hassle.
Release the capital in your assets(s) – tell us details of the asset(s) you wish to loan against.
ARRANGE AN APPRAISAL – appointments made here at our pawn shop premises in Mayfair, London are recommended to ensure New Bond Street Pawnbrokers have the relevant specialist available – once an asset(s) has been assessed – A LOAN PRICE CAN THEN BE AGREED
LOAN – CONTRACT TERMS agreed and loan contracts signed-receive immediate ADVANCE/ FUNDS
REPAY LOAN – repay loan plus accrued interest and retrieve your item(s).
– Loans can be paid back at any point throughout the term of the contract.
– All contracts can be renewed or extended at the end of the CONTRACT
TERM once interest accrued throughout the original term has been paid in full.
We provide pawnbroking services & loans against the following assets: diamonds, fine jewellery, classic cars, fine wines, fine art, antiques and fine watches as Patek Philippe or Rolex.
New Bond Street Pawnbrokers is the trading name for James Page Financial Services Ltd. James Page Financial Services Ltd is a trade member of The NPA (The National Pawnbrokers Association). James Page Financial Services, Company registration Number 02423389. Registered Office, 35 Ballards Lane, London, N3 1XW. James Page Financial Services are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority licence No 675747 for the provision of pawnbroking loans.
Pre-Contractual information will be provided to every customer, prior to signing a contract agreement
No contract has a minimum term period and each item pawned (used to raise finance) can be redeemed (loan repaid) at any point within the seven-month contract.
Interest is charged from the date of the loan and then occurs the same date the following month throughout the period of the contract.
Items pledged (used to raise a loan) remain with New Bond Street Pawnbrokers throughout the time of the contract but remain the property of our client pledging the item until the contract expires.
New Bond Street Pawnbrokers consider any item of value. Clients must have full marketable title (free of encumbrances of any kind) to each item they wish to loan against.
As New Bond Street Pawnbrokers are a member of the National Pawnbrokers Association and are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, all our contracts are for the term of up to seven months.
No contract has a minimum term period and each item pawned (used to raise finance) can be redeemed (reclaimed by repaying the loan) at any point within the seven-month contract. Interest is charged on the date of the loan and then on the same day of each subsequent month throughout the period of the contract. Items pawned remain with us throughout the time of the contract, but remain your property until the contract expires. After seven months, you can extend the loan contract. You must pay in full all interest that has accrued. When we have received payment, we can then renew the contract for a further seven months, under the same terms.
We offer competitive fixed monthly rates in the market at 5% (60% per annum), and loan terms from two up to seven months.
A representative example of repayment for a two months loan of £2500 is £250, thus a total repayment of £2750 at a 5% fixed monthly interest rate (or 60% per annum, 67.3 % APR)
*We are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority
To register with New Bond Street Pawnbrokers, we and the National Pawnbrokers Association require that all new clients have photographic ID (passport, identity card or driving licence) and proof of current address (a council tax or utility bill no less than three months old).
We do not share this information with any third party. We do not run credit checks before approving a loan, and loans from our high end pawn shop service will not affect your credit rating. All loan transactions are private and confidential.
New Bond Street Pawnbrokers understands that confidentiality and privacy is of the utmost importance to all clients. Information we collect is used to fulfil our statutory obligations.
To administer your loan agreement(s) New Bond Street Pawnbrokers do not share details with any third parties. Information collected and recorded is confidentially and securely stored, and used entirely for in-house purposes and is strictly private.
New Bond Street Pawnbrokers are members of the National Pawnbrokers Association, and are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority
Our official business address is 5 Blenhiem Street, Mayfair, London, W1S 1LD. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of 12 Endeavor Square , Stratford , London, E20 1JN, is the supervisory authority under the Consumer Credit Act 1974.
Our contracts are governed by the law of England and Wales unless you reside elsewhere in the United Kingdom in which case your local law will prevail.
All loan transactions are private and confidential. As one of the most reputable and leading independent pawn shops and pawnbrokers in London and the UK we ensure that all loan transactions are handled securely, promptly, and with sensitivity and care. Loans from New Bond Street Pawnbrokers will not affect your credit rating. New Bond Street Pawnbrokers do not run credit checks before approving a loan.
If you are a new client to New Bond Street Pawnbrokers photographic ID and household letter such as a utility bill or bank statement must be provided. This is required by the National Pawnbrokers Association and by law to protect both our clients and us. New Bond Street Pawnbrokers cannot supply a loan without this information. Please note New Bond Street Pawnbrokers do not share this information with any other third party.
Pawnbroking is a simple method to raise instant capital against items of value. New Bond Street Pawnbrokers is a member of the National Pawnbrokers Association UK, so all of our contracts are for the regulated term of up to seven months.
New Bond Street Pawnbrokers specialises in loans against fine jewellery, diamonds, fine watches, art, fine antiques, luxury cars, private plates and vintage wine. For more information on our Central London pawn shop and loaning against these items please see the respective page.
The National Pawnbrokers Association UK and NBSP require that all new clients have photographic ID and proof of a current address. Here at New Bond Street Pawnbrokers our pawnbroking service is a no-fuss method of raising immediate finance without affecting credit ratings. It’s private and confidential.
To use our pawnbroking service and raise a loan against an item please visit our London Mayfair premises. For items such as fine jewellery, diamonds and fine watches there is no need for an appointment. For art, fine antiques, luxury cars and private plates please contact us prior to a visit so we can begin the loan process. New Bond Street Pawnbrokers will always consider any item as collateral.
When an item is held as security for a loan, New Bond Street Pawnbrokers take possession of the item. We appreciate that we’re often dealing with clients’ most treasured and valued luxury items, so we guarantee that all items are handled with the utmost care and sensitivity. That they are securely stored suitably packaged and returned to our clients in the same condition as when we received them.
All items are evaluated, wrapped and stored as appropriate, and are mostly kept in sealed protected packs or the item’s original box. We store items in our vaults.
If requested, New Bond Street Pawnbrokers are happy to supply an assessment report or photos of an item prior to proceeding with a loan.
Before wrapping and storing in our climate-controlled vaults, we will evaluate the item and run our own assessment. Generally, fine art, collectables and antiques are sealed to ensure the best possible condition once in storage.
New Bond Street Pawnbrokers always liaises with the owner to find out how they believe their item should be packaged and stored. New Bond Street Pawnbrokers also works with one of London’s largest fine art logistic companies, who can assist in providing a pawnbroking service that guarantees quality for clients looking to either, transport their item to our office or move their items internationally.
Given that temperature, humidity, insulation, airflow and natural light shuttering can be factors when storing fine wine, New Bond Street Pawnbrokers works with a selection of UK-based wine merchants, storage specialists and bonded warehouses. Private investors and fine wine connoisseurs can be assured their collection or investment is secure in a controlled environment when using our London pawn shop service.
We can assist clients with transport logistics and supply a courier service for their collection to one of New Bond Street Pawnbrokers selected partners fine wine storage facilities. For clients who already have their wine stock in a chosen bonded warehouse or storage facility there is a very high chance that New Bond Street Pawnbrokers may have worked with them in the past and can take charge of the bond or collection on their behalf.
New Bond Street Pawnbrokers provides a full condition report before the vehicle is taken into storage and generally the vehicle is kept in our dry, temperature-controlled secure storage facility.
The New Bond Street Pawnbrokers appraisal team inspects the vehicle prior to providing a loan. New Bond Street Pawnbrokers work with one of the largest London-based logistic companies, so we can provide a trailer or courier service to collect the vehicle from anywhere within the UK.
For clients who already have their vehicle within a chosen storage facility there is a very high chance that New Bond Street Pawnbrokers may have worked with them in the past and are able to take charge of the vehicle on their behalf.
