A design classic of the Victorian age, these chairs were made of six pieces of Beechwood, heated by steam and pressed into cast iron moulds. Using these chairs is an easy way to separate the eating ...

And the furniture itself would be typical of a late Victorian armchair ... APPRAISER: And then the mechanism is fun, too. It's cast iron, this little, kind of fluted column base.

Only a few are big-ticket items. The piece with the highest estimate is a Victorian cast-iron garden seat, 180cm long (Lot 325: est. €2,000 to €3,000). The ornate bench-back has been powder ...