Iron Garden Furniture
Iron Victorian-style garden furniture is popular again. Antique examples should be more expensive than reproductions, about $500 to $800 for new, thousands of dollars for old. Layers of paint suggest old, but lack of paint may indicate sandblasting to remove old paint from old furniture. Other clues to age are the nuts and bolts used to join arms, legs, backs, etc. The oldest nuts are square. Later nuts are octagonal.
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When you are talking about iron garden furniture I would imagine that you are talking about old cast iron that sets outside all year. These should be rehabed about every 5-6 years. Normally the bolts and nuts, which are iron, have either rusted off or have loosened over time. Most of the time the replacement bolts, which would have been flat headed “stove” bolts are difficult to find and whatever is handy will work. With that being said it isn’t unusual to find replacement bolts in really old cast iron furniture.