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Shelton Bar (Shelton Iron, Steel & Coal Company) was a 400-acre (1.6 km 2) major steelworks in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.In its heyday, Shelton Bar employed 10,000 in the steelworks, had five coal mines, a complete railway system, and a by-products processing factory.
Cast iron railings for St. Paul's Cathedral, now in the Victoria & Albert Museum.. The Wealden iron industry was located in the Weald of south-eastern England.It was formerly an important industry, producing a large proportion of the bar iron made in England in the 16th century and most British cannon until about 1770.
In 2016, Bonhams held its first online-only auction; the sale of watches from the collection of a European nobleman. [citation needed] In September 2018, Bonhams was acquired by the UK-based private equity company, Epiris. [8] In January 2022, Bonhams acquired the Nordic auction house Bukowskis for an undisclosed sum. [9]
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In 2010, The Independent called the firm "a prominent London auction house, specialising in militaria". [11] Noonans is the largest numismatics auctioneer in London; it had £11.7m of total hammer sales in 2018. [12] In September 2019, it increased its buyer's premium to 24%, becoming the first UK numismatics auctioneer to go above 20%. [12]
The bars generally weigh between 0.5 and 0.3 kg [2] Spit shaped bars are the most commonly found representing half of all finds. [3] Sword shaped bars make up another 40 percent. [3] Iron currency bars have been found in some numbers in hill-forts With 27 being found at Hod Hill. [4] [5] The bars found at Danebury appear to have been into the ...
Cast iron was also taken up by some architects in the early 19th century where smaller supports or larger spans were required (and where wrought iron was too expensive), notably in the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, designed by John Nash and built between 1816 and 1823, where cast iron columns were used within the walls, as well as cast iron beams ...