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Title: cast iron swing back bench ends?
Post by: walker12 on January 31, 2013, 09:09:57 AM

can anybody tell me anything about this subject....when they started making them....can they have value....im based in manchester uk...i got the bench off an old lady she said she had the bench in her garden for 50+ years the wood was rotten so i kept the cast iron ends...pictures will soon follow

Title: Re: cast iron swing back bench ends?
Post by: sapphire on January 31, 2013, 09:20:03 AM

Welcome to the forum walker12.  Could you please post pictures of the object you are asking about. Also, dimensions, where you are located (different locations/different values) and any background that you have.....where it came from, who owned it, etc.

Members will certainly try to help, but we need a bit more to go on.  ;)

Title: Re: cast iron swing back bench ends?
Post by: mart on January 31, 2013, 09:47:03 AM

Location is Manchester, UK  Sapphire !!

Title: Re: cast iron swing back bench ends?
Post by: KC on January 31, 2013, 11:16:01 AM

My eyes are playing tricks on me...can you please tell us what the lettering is it?!?

Title: Re: cast iron swing back bench ends?
Post by: walker12 on January 31, 2013, 11:20:13 AM

Quote from: KC on January 31, 2013, 11:16:01 AM

My eyes are playing tricks on me...can you please tell us what the lettering is it?!?

pearson & brown

on other side it says weast

Title: Re: cast iron swing back bench ends?
Post by: mart on January 31, 2013, 12:10:06 PM

Could not find this company !!  Will look more but did find reference to Pearson who was mainly a tool maker !! Checked Ebay UK and found quite a number of these end at about $25. and some less than that !!  They don`t sell well in the UK !!

Title: Re: cast iron swing back bench ends?
Post by: KC on January 31, 2013, 12:41:51 PM

Thank you for such a quick response!

In 1914 F G Pearson started producing garden tools....this might have been an advertising bench!!!

Title: Re: cast iron swing back bench ends?
Post by: mart on January 31, 2013, 12:52:07 PM

If so it may be worth a bit more !!

Title: Re: cast iron swing back bench ends?
Post by: KC on January 31, 2013, 09:11:41 PM

FG Pearson (Tools, Metalworks, Garden Tools) is in Sheffield, JOHN BROWN & Co. Ltd. (ATLAS IRON, STEEL & SPRING WORKS) is in Sheffield.
http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic/7059-1871-trade-directory-images/page-7 (http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic/7059-1871-trade-directory-images/page-7)

Couldn't find anything on Weast.  

Are you sure it is weast?

Title: Re: cast iron swing back bench ends?
Post by: walker12 on February 01, 2013, 08:17:33 AM

Quote from: KC on January 31, 2013, 09:11:41 PM

FG Pearson (Tools, Metalworks, Garden Tools) is in Sheffield, JOHN BROWN & Co. Ltd. (ATLAS IRON, STEEL & SPRING WORKS) is in Sheffield.
http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic/7059-1871-trade-directory-images/page-7 (http://www.sheffieldhistory.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic/7059-1871-trade-directory-images/page-7)

Couldn't find anything on Weast.  

Are you sure it is weast?
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Yea its weast but weast is a small town in Manchester