A GEORGE III MAHOGANY STICK BAROMETER with moulded cornice surmounted by later parcel-gilt turned waisted finials with rectangular printed paper dial signed Jno. Corti fecit, the turned spreading Tuscan columns with a panelled central rectangular moulded body with square well, inscribed to the inside Bateman Worndte Tubes at 110 March 2 1793, and signed with a B monogram with further inscription Bollard I, restorations
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY STICK BAROMETER with moulded cornice surmounted by later parcel-gilt turned waisted finials with rectangular printed paper dial signed Jno. Corti fecit, the turned spreading Tuscan columns with a panelled central rectangular moulded body with square well, inscribed to the inside Bateman Worndte Tubes at 110 March 2 1793, and signed with a B monogram with further inscription Bollard I, restorations
38¼in. (97cm.) high
Lot Essay
Jno. Corti is recorded in the 1817 London Directory