Holyrood Architectural Salvage are currently in possession of a stove with a raised cartouche of a seated boy with a pie and the name JACK HORNER. The registered design number appears to be 11734 which would date it to 1884. According to a 1927 copy of Laxtons, JACK HORNER was a 'Corner Portable Boiler' made by Jones & Campbell Ltd of Torwood Foundry, Larbert, near Carron Company, Dobbie Forbes and Falkirk Iron Works in Scotland. In 1892 the local paper counted 25 foundries employing 8,600 men producing 8,000 tons of casting every month.
 
The firm of Jones & Campbell Ltd was started by James Jones, a luminary of the Scottish timber trade, who began selling timber in Camelon in 1838 and whose business still expanding as James Jones & Sons Ltd today producing half the UK's timber pallets and wooden I beams.
 
According to the company website Jones & Campbell Ltd was established in 1888, not 1884. The foundry produced a variety of stoves and ranges with topical names such as Surprise, Bungalow Belle, Rosebery, Trilby and Nansen, Tor, Rob Roy, Colleen (subject to an Irish challenge in the High Court) Norland Belle, Belle Portable, Chevalier kitchener, as well as the Nelson stick stand and air bricks, ashpans, doors for bakers' ovens, wheels for barrows, cradle rockers, clothes posts, dumb bells, fenders, foot scrapers, frying pans, garden rollers, garden furniture, plumbers' pots, pulleys and blocks, irons, skylights, stop-tap boxes and umbrella stands.
 
In addition to the Jack Horner stove at Holyrood, on offer at £295, is another Jones & Campbell item, THE NATIONAL SLOGAN No2 schoolroom or workshop slow-burning stove 35cm diameter by 66cm high at £500 from English Salvage of Leominster. While it is obvious that Jack Horner would be in a corner, there is no clue as to why THE NATIONAL SLOGAN was so named unless it is the Royal Stuart motto 'Nemo me impune lacessit' or 'No-one attacks me with impunity' or in Scots 'Wha daur meddle wi me'.
 
The foundry closed in 2003 with the loss of 250 jobs.
 
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