A GEORGE III SOLID MAHOGANY AND ROSEWOOD STICK BAROMETER by Benjamin Martin, signed on the silvered scale, with mercurial thermometer and sector hygrometer case within an engraved acanthus frame to the left and the barometer to the right, the case with an arched top with canted sides above a rectangular body with moulded edge and a shield-shaped cistern bulb, the back of the register plate and the back of the system cover inscribed in ink 0897

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A GEORGE III SOLID MAHOGANY AND ROSEWOOD STICK BAROMETER by Benjamin Martin, signed on the silvered scale, with mercurial thermometer and sector hygrometer case within an engraved acanthus frame to the left and the barometer to the right, the case with an arched top with canted sides above a rectangular body with moulded edge and a shield-shaped cistern bulb, the back of the register plate and the back of the system cover inscribed in ink 0897
38in. (96.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Benjamin Martin (1704-1782) was one of the most prolific lecturers on natural and experimental philosophy in the 1750s and 1760s in London. He combined this on an intensive scale with the production of instruments. On a trade card of circa 1760 he advertises 'All Sorts of Philosophical Optical and Mathematical Instruments many of which are of New Invention made and sold by Benjamin Martin at his shop near Crane Court in Fleet Street'.

A similar example is illustrated in Nicholas Goodison, English Barometers and their Makers 1680 - 1860, London, 1969, p. 183

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