Garden Bench: A rare Dalkeith foundry Louis XV style cast iron seatcirca 1870 with diamond registration stamp 188cm.; 74ins long The design is registered for the Dalkeith Ironworks^ Dalkeith^ Scotland. The company was certainly operating from circa 1810 until the end of the nineteenth century^ and may well have been founded by David Mushet the famous metallurgist^ born in Dalkeith in 1772 and brought up as an iron founder. An advertisement in a 1860 directory presents the company as ~W R Mushet^ Dalkeith Iron Works~. Apart from stoves and garden seats the company also offered fountains^ metallic greenhouses and arbours. (See engraving).
Garden Bench: A rare Dalkeith foundry Louis XV style cast iron seatcirca 1870 with diamond registration stamp 188cm.; 74ins long The design is registered for the Dalkeith Ironworks^ Dalkeith^ Scotland. The company was certainly operating from circa 1810 until the end of the nineteenth century^ and may well have been founded by David Mushet the famous metallurgist^ born in Dalkeith in 1772 and brought up as an iron founder. An advertisement in a 1860 directory presents the company as ~W R Mushet^ Dalkeith Iron Works~. Apart from stoves and garden seats the company also offered fountains^ metallic greenhouses and arbours. (See engraving).
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