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Message:: [QUOTE="India Street Antiques, post: 3927119, member: 18424"]Responding to an older post here, I know, but I find Heron pieces intriguing as they "borrowed" design elements for their cocktail sideboards from Beautility. Heron's difference is the furniture company was short lived and they preferred to work with bird's eye maple veneers. The Heron name comes from Henry Ronson, Gerald Ronson's father, thus Heron Son. They created these sideboards post-WWII, beginning in 1953, but became quickly embroiled in a lawsuit over their initial business name, Ronson Furniture. The Ronson lighter company sued them over use of the name. They became involved with real estate and turned their attentions to that by 1957. So, the furniture enterprise was short-lived. I have been doing research on their  British Standards Institute (BSI) license number, and my research has led me to BELIEVE it is 2066; however, I am still working to establish this as correct. If I can establish that as fact, we can document more Heron pieces.[/QUOTE]