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By the looks of it, it's original, and while I couldn't find any foundry mark on it, there's an old gas lamp at very top which was made by Moses McCulloch and Co., Scotland's second oldest architectural ironworks.

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This guard stone prevented horse-drawn carts and carriages damaging the wall as they negotiated the hair-pin bend of the carriage ramp the wall was built to create.

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A cast iron guard 'stone' at the eastern end of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's 1872 massive retaining wall on Kelvinside Terrace in Glasgow.

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Most such sculptures represent figures from Greek, Roman, Egyptian or even Persian mythology, or are allegorial figures expressing particular virtues, such as prudence, the owners wished to be associated with their institution.

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Built for the Standard Life Insurance Company in 1890, it's one of the few architectural sculptures representing biblical parables or figures on the city's many grand financial buildings.

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The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins by James Young on a pediment of the Standard Building in Gordon Street opposite the Central Hotel in Glasgow.

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James Miller's 1930 imposing Modern Classical style former Commercial Bank of Scotland of the corner of West George Street and West Nile Street in central Glasgow.

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