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"CAST-IRON FURNITURE" by George Himmelheber
published by "Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd - London"
Himmelheber ranks it as an English bench produced in 1846 by Carron Company, Stirlingshire.

"MILLER'S GARDEN ANTIQUES" by Rupert Van Der Werff & Jackie Rees
published by "Miller's

Cast Iron bench by the Carron Foundry, mid-19th century
The original signed drawing for this seat in the Carron Foundry catalogue is numbered 34358. Both the Carron and the Falkirk foundries were located on the Firth of Forth one the east coast of Scotland, but they had warehousing and retailing premises close to each other in Upper Thames Street, London, to which iron goods were transported along the River Thames.