A pair of white-painted cast-iron garden benches mid-19th century, Carron Company, Stirlingshire

Repainted, in good restored condition, some minor scratches and scuffs. This lot will be offered without reserve.
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The design for these benches is numbered 34358 and was registered and patented by the Carron Foundry in Carron, Stirlingshire, on March 16, 1846. An identical example made by the American foundry of Brown & Owen is in the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, and illustrated in Georg Himmelheber, Cast-iron Furniture,  London, 1996, p. 225, pl. 92.